Etymology

Kitinen

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Today it means: A major tributary of the river Kemi, Finland’s longest river. Full definition →

Finnish Kitinen
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The story

  1. Finnish · borrowed fromKitinen
  2. English todayKitinen

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

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.