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jyväs- + kylä, through the name of a nearby body of water (the river Jyväsjoki or the lake Jyväsjärvi), as a reference to the fertility of the land[1]
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Jyväskylä" is Jyväskylässä.
^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
