Yttilä

Sepon Kauppa shop and service station in August 2011.

Yttilä (Finnish pronunciation: [ˈytːilæ]) is a village in the municipality of Säkylä, in the Satakunta region of Finland, on the territory of the former municipality of Köyliö.[1] It is located on the eastern shore of the lake Köyliönjärvi.[2]

Etymology

According to Ralf Saxén (1905), the name of Yttilä is derived from an old Scandinavian given name Ytti. Seppo Suvanto (1987) instead suggests that the name is derived from a contraction of a native Finnish name Yletty, as an old farm in Tyrvää named Yletty also appears in old church records as Yty, Yti or Yttj. A village named Yttilä is also found in Kauvatsa (now part of Kokemäki).[1]

Cultural references

The video game My Summer Car features a fictional village shop named Teimon Kauppa which bears a strong resemblance to former village store Sepon Kauppa (lit. Seppo's Shop; closed in 2014[3]) located in Yttilä. Developer Johannes Rojola confirmed the shop was used as inspiration in 2017.[4][5]

References

  1. 1 2 Paikkala, Sirkka; et al. (2007). Suomalainen paikannimikirja (PDF) (digital version) (in Finnish). Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland (Kotus). p. 525. ISBN 978-952-5446-96-8. Archived (PDF) from the original on 25 August 2021. Retrieved 22 August 2026.
  2. ↑ "Location of Yttilä" (Map). Karttapaikka. National Land Survey of Finland (Maanmittauslaitos). Retrieved 22 August 2026.
  3. ↑ "Mitä muistat Yttilän kylänraitilla sijainneista kyläkaupoista?" (in Finnish). 16 August 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  4. ↑ "Twitter post". Twitter. Retrieved 2020-06-22.
  5. ↑ "My Summer Car -pelistä tuttu Teimon kauppa löytyy oikeasti Satakunnasta" (in Finnish). Retrieved 2017-06-23.

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61°06′40″N 22°22′36″E / 61.11111°N 22.37667°E / 61.11111; 22.37667

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