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Ilomantsi.

Ilomantsi (a municipality and village in North Karelia, Finland)

9 characters4 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈiloˌmɑntsi/[ˈilo̞ˌmɑ̝n.ts̠i]
  1. Ilomantsi (a municipality and village in North Karelia, Finland)

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Originally the name of the nearby lake, derived from Sami, ultimately from Proto-Samic *ëlēmānčë (“highest, uppermost, topmost”) (whence Northern Sami alimuš), because there are no lakes further upriver. A distant doublet of ylimmäinen (specifically its oblique stem ylimmäise-).

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