pykälän

Pykälän is the genitive singular form of the Finnish noun pykälä and of the Finnish surname Pykälä. In Finnish, the genitive marks possession or association and is used to connect nouns in phrases and compound names. For example, pykälän talo can be interpreted as “the house of Pykälä” or “the Pykälä house.” The same genitive form also appears in toponymy, where place names may reflect ownership or origin, such as Pykälänranta or Pykälänlahti (the shore or bay belonging to Pykälä).

Senses and origins: The base word pykälä has multiple senses in Finnish. In legal or administrative language it can mean a section or paragraph of a document. As a surname and as a component in place names, it functions primarily as a name element and may originate from a farm or locality associated with a person or family named Pykälä.

Usage and scope: In modern Finnish, pykälän is primarily a grammatical form used in possessive constructions and in forming compound place names. It is not typically treated as an independent lexical item in dictionaries, but rather as the morphologically inflected form of a noun or surname.

See also: pykälä; Pykälä (surname).