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Finnish
Etymology
Uncertain, possibly from dialectal kirpa (~ kirva) through the lake name *Kirva(n)järvi > Kirvunjärvi[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kirvu
- Svobodnoye, Leningrad Oblast (former municipality of Finland within territory ceded due to World War II, now in Russia)
Declension
References
- ^ Lehikoinen, Laila (2018) Antreasta Äyräpäähän: Luovutetun Karjalan pitäjien nimet (in Finnish), Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISBN, pages 17–18