Mei- + lahti; from the byname/nickname of Meil-Bengt Jakobsson, who owned a farm called Mejlans in the area. Mejlans remains the Swedish name for the neighborhood today. The byname/nickname may be in reference to Meilby, a village around what is now Seutula. The Meil- part may be an anthroponym Meile from some German language.[1]
- IPA(key): /ˈmei̯ˌlɑhti/, [ˈme̞i̯ˌlɑ̝xt̪i]
- Rhymes: -ɑhti
- Hyphenation(key): Mei‧lahti
Meilahti
- 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 [The Book of Finnish Place Names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN