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There are two theories regarding the origin of this place name. The first is that it originates from a Tavastian and Eastern Finnish dialectal word sysmä(“deep, remote forest”). The second proposes that it is a contraction from a name like *Sysimäki (sysi + mäki).[1]
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Sysmä" is Sysmässä.
^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN