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Originally Posted by Stig Jarlevik
..Yavr does not get us anywhere since (from Google) this seems to be a kind of "suffix" to various different lakes ...
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"
Yavr" is Sami word for lake (in Finnish "
järvi").
Note therea are several Sami languages, lake can also be "
javri" (
https://www.freelang.net/online/sami.php?lg=gb). In Swedish maps for example one can see -
jaur, too
Kari