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Finnish
Etymology
Uncertain. Possibly from an Old Swedish given name Kelve or from dialectal kälveä, kälviä (“wilted, emaciated, dry”).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kälviä
- A former municipality in Central Ostrobothnia, Finland; now part of Kokkola.
- A village in the municipality of Kokkola.
Declension
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kälviä" is Kälviällä.
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN