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puna (“red”) + vuori (“mountain”), a kind of translation of the Swedish name Rödbergen, Rödberget. The name is a reference to reddish sea cliffs in the area. The name was originally in the plural both in Swedish and Finnish.[1]
- IPA(key): /ˈpunɑˌʋuo̯ri/, [ˈpunɑ̝ˌʋuo̞̯ri]
- Rhymes: -uori
- Hyphenation(key): Puna‧vuori
Punavuori
- A neighborhood of Helsinki
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location.
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
