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Finnish
Etymology
From loima (“(dialectal) lowlying wetland”). The long vowel is probably by analogy with maa or by haplology from *Loimamaa (loima + maa) or *Loimimaa (loimi- + maa).[1]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Loimaa
- A town in Southwest Finland.
Declension
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Loimaa" is Loimaalla.
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References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN