Etymology
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First attested in 1908, from Finnish Kitinen; no further etymology for the name is known.
Pronunciation
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- or as in Finnish
Proper noun
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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.
Translations
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major tributary of the river Kemi
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