Surname
Kälviäinen
“to dry up, shrivel up”
Kälviäinen is a surname, possibly from Old Swedish. It is used in Finnish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Kälviäinen possibly goes back to a word meaning “to dry up, shrivel up.”
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Where it comes from
Kälviäinen possibly comes from Old Swedish.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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