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Koitere.

a lake in Northern Karelia, Finland

7 characters3 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈkoi̯tereˣ/[ˈko̞i̯t̪e̞re̞(ʔ)]
  1. a lake in Northern Karelia, Finland

Where this word comes from

Probably contracted from earlier *Koitajärvi (related to the name of the nearby river Koitajoki), with an initial component of unknown origin. According to Rahkonen (2013), perhaps from a Proto-Samic form *kuojtē, from or akin to Finnic kaita (“narrow”).

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