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The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Keitele" is Keiteleellä.
An amalgamation (blend) of keidas (dialectally also "isthmus") and dialectal ketvel, ketvele(“narrow isthmus”), and thus the lake is named after a particular isthmus (possibly reference to a peninsula that is now called Niininiemi).[1]
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Keitele" is Keiteleellä.
↑ 1.01.1Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN