Where does “Tšadjärvi” come from?

Tšadjärvi (Finnish) comes from Finnish Tšad, from French Tchad, from Kanuri tsade — lake.

Tšadjärvi (Finnish): Lake Chad, Chad lake in central Africa, divided between Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger

Definitions

  1. Lake Chad, Chad lake in central Africa, divided between Nigeria, Cameroon, Chad and Niger

Ancestry of “Tšadjärvi”, step by step

Tšadjärvi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish Tšad

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1FinnishTšadChad
2FrenchTchad—
3Kanuritsadelake

via Finnish järvi

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjärvilake
2Latin-lanominative feminine singular of -lus; nominative...
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