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Lappee
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Finnish
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Etymology
Reduced from fi Lapvesi (through generalization of the genitive form fi Lapve(d)en and/or other inflected forms), originally a term for the southern parts of the lake Saimaa. This is probably reduced from even earlier fi Lappavesi (first attested as fi Lappawesi in 1415), where the latter component is fi vesi water and the former may be related to fi lappalainen (in reference to a previous Sami population).
Pronunciation
Proper noun
A former municipality in Finland, merged with Lappeenranta in 1967.
Declension
sg Lappe a
Derived terms
fi compounds Lappeenranta
References