Kitinen
English
Etymology
First attested in 1908. From the Finnish Kitinen; no further etymology for the name is known.
Proper noun
Kitinen
- 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.
- 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:
Translations
major tributary of the river Kemi
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Finnish
Etymology
Unknown.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈkitine̞n/
- Hyphenation: ki‧ti‧nen
Declension
Inflection of Kitinen (Kotus type 38/nainen, no gradation) | |||
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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 | — | — |
Descendants
- English: Kitinen
Further reading
Kitinen on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia fi
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