Ähtäri

Ähtäri

2. A town and municipality of South Ostrobothnia, Finland.

Uncertain. Probably from an original lake name *Ätsävesi, *Ätsäjärvi (> *Ätsäri > Ähtäri). One possibility is that the initial part is of Sami origin, akin to Northern Sami ahcit.^[1] Rahkonen (2013) however does not consider this likely, and speculates that the -äri ending may in fact be original as well, although he considers it more likely that the original form was closer to Ähtävä.^[2]

• IPA^(key): /ˈæhtæri/, [ˈæht̪æri]
• Rhymes: -æhtæri
• Syllabification^(key): Äh‧tä‧ri
• Hyphenation^(key): Äh‧tä‧ri

Ähtäri

1. Ähtäri (a town and municipality of South Ostrobothnia, Finland)

The internal locative cases (inessive, illative and elative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Ähtäri" is Ähtärissä.

• ärähti