Kauniainen

Finnish fi: Etymology Originally the name of an estate and village near Nokia, probably from a pre-Christian given name fi Kaunia (presumably from fi kaunis) fi inen. The name for the town near Helsinki is based on a farm name found on some late 19th century maps. The farm may have been named after the aforementioned estate near Nokia. The name was revived in the late 1920s and became established in the 1930s (replacing an earlier name fi Kuusisto [< fi kuusisto] which was based on the Swedish name sv Grankulla), but was only taken into official use in 1949. Pronunciation Proper noun fi town/and/municipality r/Uusimaa in the Helsinki metropolitan region, c/Finland enclaved by Espoo Declension Kauniai a internal Kauniainen Kauniaisissa Note that the inflected forms are formed as if they were plural. Derived terms fi kauniaislainen References Anagrams fi aaeiiknnnu aukinainen