Kitinen
English
editEtymology
editFirst attested in 1908, from Finnish Kitinen; no further etymology for the name is known.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editKitinen
- 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
editmajor tributary of the river Kemi
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Further reading
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editFinnish
editEtymology
editUnknown. Almost certainly a borrowing from Sami, but the etymon is unknown as it has not been preserved. Northern Sami Gittesjohka is reborrowed from Finnish.
Pronunciation
editProper noun
editKitinen
Declension
editInflection 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 | — | |
abessive | Kitisettä | — | |
instructive | — | — | |
comitative | See the possessive forms below. |
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Descendants
edit- English: Kitinen
Further reading
edit- Kitinen on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia fi
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