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Finnish
Etymology
Uncertain, perhaps named after a lake or river, the name of which could derive from kiskoa or dialectal kisko (“piece of birchbark”) (whence modern kisko (“rail”)).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kisko
- A former municipality in Southwest Finland; now part of Salo.
Declension
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kisko" is Kiskossa.
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN