Uncertain. Possibly from an Old Swedish given name Kelve or from dialectal kälveä, kälviä (“wilted, emaciated, dry”).[1]
- IPA(key): /ˈkælʋiæ/, [ˈk̟ælʋiæ]
- Rhymes: -ælʋiæ
- Syllabification(key): Käl‧vi‧ä
Kälviä
- A former municipality in Central Ostrobothnia, Finland; now part of Kokkola.
- A village in the municipality of Kokkola.
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kälviä" is Kälviällä.
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN