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Finnish
Etymology
From a Karelian dialectal (i.e. Karelian Finnish) word kempelä, kempele (“twisted, winding”), kemmelä,[1] possibly in some way derived from kampi (compare kampela) through later fronting.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kempele
- A Finnish municipality, south of Oulu, in North Ostrobothnia.
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kempele" is Kempeleessä.
Derived terms
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN