Kainuu

English Etymology en :bor fi:Kainuu + 1 Proper noun en region c/Finland. Finnish fi: thumb|upright|fi Kainuu kartalla|alt=Map of Finland with Kainuu highlighted Etymology fi. Probably in some way related to non kvenir and ru каяний, ru каянский (whence fi Kajaani and sv Kajanaland). The term has historically been variously applied to different regions in what is now northern Finland and its vicinity. Theories have included: Details Borrowing from gmq-pro *gainu gully, hole; gap, opening (compare no gein corner rope of a seine), originally as fi kainus, referring to an 'opening' or passage in a waterway, e.g. a river mouth, or a place through which fishermen could sail to reach home.Koivulehto Jorma Ala-Satakunnan Kainu ja pohjoisen Kainuu Päivi Rintala Kielen ja kulttuurin Satakunta. Juhlakirja Aimo Hakasen 60-vuotispäiväksi 1.11.1995 Turun yliopisto 1995 The modern form fi Kainuu would then be levelled from an inflected stem fi kainu(h)u-. Earlier compared also to dialectal fi kainus central stanchion in a sleigh, perhaps through a meaning like messenger's scepter, perhaps borrowed from the same North Germanic root, but the semantics are rather questionable. From a word meaning (humid) lowland, attested in some older dictionaries as fi kainu, fi kaino, perhaps borrowed from non hvein or earlier gem-pro *hwainō (compare dialectal sv hven swamp).Vahtola Jouko Kvenerne – vem var de ursprungligen? Torekoven Strøm Kvenene – en glemt minoritet? Universitetet i Tromsø 1994 There is no evidence for such a word in Finnish dialects, however (i.e. it looks like a dictionary-only word). The lack of knowledge of what the term originally meant, even as a place name, has proven an obstacle to attempts to explain it. First attested as part of zle-ono Каꙗно море, zle-ono Kaino more in 1323; the sound correspondences between the Finnic, Slavic and North Germanic terms have not been explained. According to Heikkilä (2014), the North Germanic forms would have been reborrowed from Finnic (which in turn would be from the Germanic term for 'opening, passage'), specifically via urj-fin-pro *Kainus > gem-pro *Kwēinulanda (gem-pro *Kʷàinulanda, whence then non-own Kvēnland); later, it was also incorrectly (folk-etymologically) analyzed as containing non kona, non kvenn- woman (leading e.g. to the mistranslated la Terra feminarum the land of women).Mikko K. Heikkilä, Bidrag till Fennoskandiens språkliga förhistoria i tid och rum (2014). pp. 243–246 He also theorizes that the term originally referred to a place further south, e.g. around modern Satakunta, before it spread/moved north during the Viking Age due to migrations further north.Mikko K. Heikkilä, Bidrag till Fennoskandiens språkliga förhistoria i tid och rum (2014). p. 181 Perhaps the Slavic forms, on the other hand, may have been adopted from such a Latin form as la caianus, la Caiania (influenced by la -ānus), although such a form is not found in the Latin translation of the 1323 Treaty of Nöteborg, the Novgorodian version of which zle-ono Каꙗно море first appears in. Pronunciation Proper noun fi region in eastern c/Finland fi Nälkämaa Kalix town in Norrbotten County, Sweden Declension internal Kainuu Kainuussa sg Kainu a Derived terms fi kainuulainen fi compounds kainuunharmas kainuunsaame Ylikainuu See also fi kainu Kven References Anagrams fi aiknuu nuukia