Finnish[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Uncertain, possibly from dialectal kirpa (~ kirva) through the lake name *Kirva(n)järvi > Kirvunjärvi[1]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈkirʋu/, [ˈk̟irʋu]
- Rhymes: -irʋu
- Syllabification(key): Kir‧vu
Proper noun[edit]
Kirvu
- Svobodnoye, Leningrad Oblast (former municipality of Finland within territory ceded due to World War II, now in Russia)
Declension[edit]
References[edit]
- ^ Lehikoinen, Laila (2018) Antreasta Äyräpäähän: Luovutetun Karjalan pitäjien nimet[1] (in Finnish), Kotimaisten kielten keskus, →ISBN, pages 17–18