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Urja- + -la, possibly from a pre-Christian given name Utria (*Utriala > *Uẟriala > *Urẟiala > *Urriala > Urjala; akin to the surname Utriainen), or from a lost dialectal word for "otter" akin to Võroudras, referring to fur hunting or fur trade.[1]
The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Urjala" is Urjalassa.
^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN