The following terminations have a local significance—

=-kko= or =-ikko= indicates a place where anything is found in a

quantity; =rapakko=, _a muddy place_; =kivikko=, _a heap of stones_;

=koivikko=, _a birchwood_; =kuusikko=, _firwood_.

=-la=, added to the name of a person, expresses the place where that

person lives; =pappila=, _a priest’s house_; =setälä=, _uncle’s house_;

=tuonela=, _the house of death_.

=-nko= or =-nte= is used to form local substantives. =Alanko=, _a

low-lying place_ (=Alankomaat=, _the Netherlands_), =ylänkö=, _a height_;

=tasanko=, _a plane_.

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