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Vanajavesi.

a lake in Finland

10 characters5 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈʋɑnɑjɑˌʋesi/[ˈʋɑ̝nɑ̝jɑ̝ˌʋe̞s̠i]
  1. a lake in Finland

  2. A navigable waterway consisting of multiple connected lakes, the center of which is the lake of Vanajavesi (now usually called Vanajaveden reitti to distinguish it from the lake proper).

Where this word comes from

Vanaja + vesi (“lake, water”). According to linguist and onomastician Viljo Nissilä, the term originally referred to the entire waterway spanning from Janakkala to Tyrväntö, and Vanaja was derived as vana (“trail, track”) + -ja (for the suffix, see Proto-Finnic *-ja).

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