Originally Elimä; mäki(“hill”) has later been introduced folk-etymologically through the inflected forms. Ultimately from Sami (compare Northern Samialimus(“uppermost”)), originally as the name of a lake (the "uppermost lake").[1]
^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN