Einavatnet

Einavatnet
Einavatnet
Einavannet / Einafjorden
	View of the lake and surrounding farmland
	Einavatnet Location of the lake Einavatnet Einavatnet (Norway)
Location	Vestre Toten Municipality, Innlandet
Coordinates	60°34′47″N 10°38′04″E / 60.57972°N 10.63444°E
Primary outflows	Hunnselva river
Basin countries	Norway
Max. length	13 kilometres (8.1 mi)
Max. width	2.3 kilometres (1.4 mi)
Surface area	13.82 km2 (5.34 sq mi)
Max. depth	56 metres (184 ft)
Shore length1	40 kilometres (25 mi)
Surface elevation	398 metres (1,306 ft)
Settlements	Eina
References	NVE
	1 Shore length is not a well-defined measure.

Einavatnet is a lake which lies in Vestre Toten Municipality in Innlandet county, Norway. The 13.82-square-kilometre (5.34 sq mi) lake lies at an elevation of 398 metres (1,306 ft) above sea level. The lake lies in the southern portion of the municipality, about 12 kilometres (7.5 mi) south of the municipal centre, Raufoss. The village of Eina lies at the northern end of the lake. The Eina Church is located on the eastern shore of the lake. The Norwegian National Road 4 runs along the eastern shore of the lake. The river Hunnselva flows north out of the lake towards the town of Gjøvik where it drains into the large lake Mjøsa.^[2]

Name

The Old Norse form of the name was probably just Eini. This name is derived from einir which means "juniper" (referring to the vegetation around the lake). The last element of the name is -vatnet which is the finite form of vatn which means "water" or "lake". Historically, the lake name only included the first element of the current name, and later the -vatnet suffix was added.

References

^ "Innsjødatabase". nve.no (in Norwegian). Retrieved 5 November 2022.
^ Thorsnæs, Geir, ed. (12 August 2019). "Einavatnet". Store norske leksikon (in Norwegian). Kunnskapsforlaget. Retrieved 5 November 2022.