Where does “jokijärvi” come from?

jokijärvi (Finnish) comes from Finnish joki, from Finnish sokeus, from Finnish sokea, from Proto-Finnic sokeda — blind.

jokijärvi (Finnish): a lake through which a river flows, a lake in the middle of a river; river lake

Definitions

  1. a lake through which a river flows, a lake in the middle of a river; river lake

Ancestry of “jokijärvi”, step by step

jokijärvi traces back through two separate lines of ancestry.

via Finnish joki

StepLanguageWordMeaning
1Finnishjokiriver
2Finnishsokeusblindness
3Finnishsokeablind
4Proto-Finnicsokedablind

via Finnish järvi

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