Meanings
- A major tributary of the river Kemi, Finland’s longest river.
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.
2005, Mark Nuttall (editor), Encyclopedia of the Arctic I–III (A–Z), Routledge (Master e-book), page 1,164/1, “Lappin Lääni”2 more examples
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.
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 380Crossing 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.
1950, Archivum: Tiedonannot, V-VIII, page 38
Origin
- FinnishKitinen
- EnglishKitinen
First attested in 1908, from Finnish Kitinen; no further etymology for the name is known.
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Finnish Kitinen
- Kitinenmajor tributary of the river Kemi
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Kitinen. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kitinen
“Kitinen.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kitinen. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “Kitinen,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Kitinen.
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