Etymology

Helsinki

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Today it means: The capital city of Finland; a municipality, the capital of the region of Uusimaa, Finland. Full definition →

Finnish Helsinki ← Swedish Helsinge ← Old Swedish Helsinga
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The story

  1. Old SwedishHelsinga
  2. SwedishHelsingå
  3. SwedishHelsinge
  4. FinnishHelsinki
  5. English todayHelsinki

Borrowed from Finnish Helsinki.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.