Oulu

Ōulù English +, Wisconsin +järvi Etymology en :bor fi:Oulu + 1 Proper noun en Q47048en municipality/capital city r/North Ostrobothnia c/Finland. en town co/Bayfield County s/Wisconsin c/USA, named after Oulu in Finland. en lake in northern c/Finland. Synonyms lake en Oulujarvi, en Cajania historical Translations city in Finland Chinese: Mandarin: cmn 奧盧 Àolú Danish: da Oulu Finnish: fi Oulu German: de Oulu Greek: el Όουλου Polish: pl Oulu n Russian: ru О́улу m, ru У́леаборг m Swedish: sv Uleåborg n lake in Finland Finnish: fi Oulujärvi Swedish: sv Ule träsk n Finnish fi: thumb|upright=0.75|fi Oulu kartalla|alt=Map of Finland with Oulu highlighted thumb|upright=0.75|fi Kuvia Oulusta|alt=Gallery of photos from Oulu, Finland Etymology The city is named after the river (fi Oulujoki), in turn after the lake (fi Oulujärvi). The name is first attested as fi vlu (probably in reference to the lake) in 1327. Probably from the dialectal term fi oulu floodwater,Janne Saarikivi: Oulu-nimen etymologia / "Etymology of the name Oulu" a fi smi borrowing, ultimately from fi smi-pro *oalē waterway. Alternatively, the aforementioned Samic term might be borrowed from Finnish, which would rather derive from another Samic term, smi-pro *võvl(V), in turn from earlier unk *votl- (compare to the name of the Vodla river in Russia), perhaps a Paleo-European substrate borrowing.Rahkonen, Pauli. Suomeen suuntautuneiden nimistövirtausten monimuotoisuus. Muinaistutkija 1/2021. p. 28–30 Pronunciation Fi-Oulu.oga Proper noun fi Oulu Q47048 Declension internal Oulu Oulussa sg Oul u a Derived terms fi oululainen fi compounds Oulujoki Oulujärvi Oulunsalo References Polish pl: thumb|Oulu Etymology pl :ubor fi:Oulu + 1 Pronunciation ołlu Ou.lu Proper noun n 1 pl Oulu Q47048 Further reading