Laukaa

From the strong grade form of lauas (“stream pool”), referring to the Koivulahti between the lakes Saraavesi and Kuusvesi, which was an important route for boats. The Russian town's name has a similar etymology, however there is no direct connection between the two.

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɑu̯kɑː/, [ˈlɑu̯kɑː]
• Rhymes: -ɑukɑː
• Syllabification^(key): Lau‧kaa

Laukaa

1. A municipality of Central Finland.
2. Luga (a town in Leningrad Oblast, Russia)

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when talking about location; for example, "in Laukaa" is Laukaassa.

• (Luga): Ylä-Laukaa, Luga

• kaluaa, kaulaa

• Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007) Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN

Unknown. Perhaps related to Estonian laugas (“muddle, pool”).

• (Ala-Laukaa) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑu̯kɑː/, [ˈɫɑu̯kɑ]
• (Soikkola) IPA^(key): /ˈlɑu̯kɑː/, [ˈɫɑu̯kɑː]
• Rhymes: -ɑu̯kɑː
• Hyphenation: lau‧kaa

Laukaa

1. Luga (a river in Russia)
   • 1915, Volmari Porkka, quoting Oute Loan kylästä, “1140. Soikkola, Tarinaisi, III2”, in Väinö Salminen, editor, Suomen Kansan Vanhat Runot. Länsi-Inkerin runot‎, volume III1, Suomalaisen Kirjallisuuden Seura, lines 17-18:

     Vieretti munat vettee, // Laski pesän Laukahaa.

     It made the eggs roll into the sea, // It dropped the nest into the Luga.

   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 3:

     Vaaƶnoimmat näist dialektoist ollaa Soikkolan dialekta, kumpaa läätää Soikkolan poolisaareel Koskisiin, Soikkolan, Mäkkiin, Loukkulan ja Someroisiin selsovettiloin kylliis, ja Laukaan dialekta, kumpaa läätää Laukaan joen varreel.

     The most important of these dialects are the Soikkola dialect, which is spoken on the Soikkola peninsula in the villages of the village Soviets of Koskiset, Soikkola, Mäkit, Loukkula and Someroiset, and the Laukaa dialect, which is spoken along the river Luga.

2. Short for Ala-Laukaa (“Lower Luga dialect”).
   • 1936, V. I. Junus, Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 35:

     Laukaal ono yks painutossiha, kumpaa Soikkolaas ei oo.

     The Lower Luga dialect has one grammatical case, which doesn't exist in the Soikkola dialect.

• V. I. Junus (1936) Iƶoran Keelen Grammatikka‎, Leningrad: Riikin Ucebno-pedagogiceskoi Izdateljstva, page 28