Kitinen

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈkɪtɪnɛn/

or as in Finnish

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.

• Kitinen on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

• kinetin

Unknown. Almost certainly a borrowing from Sami, but the etymon is unknown as it has not been preserved. Northern Sami Gittesjohka is reborrowed from Finnish.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkitinen/, [ˈkit̪ine̞n]
• Rhymes: -itinen
• Syllabification^(key): Ki‧ti‧nen

Kitinen

1. Kitinen

• English: Kitinen

• Kitinen on the Finnish Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^fi

• tinkien