Munapirtti ( sv, Mogenpört, mo:gen-) is a village on the island of
Munapirtti in the municipality of
Pyhtää,
Finland
Finland ( fi, Suomi ; sv, Finland ), officially the Republic of Finland (; ), is a Nordic country in Northern Europe. It shares land borders with Sweden to the northwest, Norway to the north, and Russia to the east, with the Gulf of B ...
.
Name
The original form of the name may have been ''*Muonanpirtti'' or ''*Muoninpirtti'', where the initial element refers to a variant of the Christian name Simon or Salomon. Alternatively it may refer to former hunting grounds of the ''Monaala'' farm in
Hattula
Hattula is a municipality of Finland. It is part of the Tavastia Proper region and until 2010 it was located in the province of Southern Finland. Hattula is almost completely surrounded by Hämeenlinna, only in the north it shares the border with ...
. Another possibility is that it refers to gathering of bird eggs in the area, like the name of the nearby marsh ''Munasuo''.
The Swedish name ''Mogenpört'' is derived from the Finnish name.
External links
the webpages of the island of Mogenpört, in Swedish and Finnish
References
Pyhtää
Villages in Finland
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