Kitinen

English

Etymology

First attested in 1908. From the Finnish Kitinen; no further etymology for the name is known.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkɪtɪnɛn/
or as in Finnish

Proper noun

Kitinen

  1. A major tributary of the river Kemi, Finland’s longest river.
    • 1908, William Johnson Sollas and Hertha B.C. Sollas (translators), Eduard Suess (author), The Face of the Earth (Das Antlitz der Erde) III, Oxford at the Clarendon Press, page 380:
      Sederholm, who visited the district south of lake Enare in 1898, confirms Jernström’s observations; Herr Sederholm also informs me that the Jatulian quartzite, coming from Kittilä continues towards the south-east and reaches the river Kitinen north of the church of Sodankylä.
    • 1950, Archivum: Tiedonannot V–VIII, page 38:
      Crossing the strip of land between the Luiro and the Kitinen I arrived at Kairala village on the Kitinen. From this village a trip was made to Suvanto village and Akankoski on the Kitinen. The return route followed the Kitinen and the Kemijoki, and then along the highroad to Rovaniemi and Kemi.
    • 2005, Mark Nuttall (editor), Encyclopedia of the Arctic I–III (A–Z), Routledge, →ISBN (Master e-book), page 1,164/1, “Lappin Lääni”:
      The main rivers are the Muonio, Ounas, Ivalo, Tana, Kitinen, and Kemi. With the exception of Tana, they all drain southward into the Gulf of Bothnia.

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Finnish

Etymology

Unknown.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈkitine̞n/
  • Hyphenation: ki‧ti‧nen

Proper noun

Kitinen

  1. Kitinen

Declension

Inflection of Kitinen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation)
nominative Kitinen
genitive Kitisen
partitive Kitistä
illative Kitiseen
singular plural
nominative Kitinen
accusative nom. Kitinen
gen. Kitisen
genitive Kitisen
partitive Kitistä
inessive Kitisessä
elative Kitisestä
illative Kitiseen
adessive Kitisellä
ablative Kitiseltä
allative Kitiselle
essive Kitisenä
translative Kitiseksi
instructive
abessive Kitisettä
comitative

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