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by masklinn 489 days ago
Salt? I don't know if there are any in finland tho.

Does finnish differentiate between fresh and sea water? If it's near the coast I imagine it could have been named thus to differentiate it from a nearby gulf?

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"Vesi" means generically any kind of water and there are compound words for seawater and freshwater just like in English. There are several Vesijärvis in Finland, and now that I googled it, it's conjectured that the word vesi in the name does not refer to the water in the lake but rather derives from an archaic word meaning "outlet river".