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From the name of the river; seinä(“wall”) + joki(“river”), thought to be because of the deep riverbed (at least at the site of the town), with "walls" on both sides on the river.[1]
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Seinäjoki" is Seinäjoella.
^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN