Kitee
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English
Proper noun
Kitee
- A town and municipality of North Karelia, Finland
Translations
Finnish
Etymology
From a dialectal form kit(t)ee of the dialectal adjective kiteä (“(of cold weather) severe; slow”), probably referring to how the river Kitee flows relatively slowly.[1] The adjective in question is probably akin to kitistä.[2]
Pronunciation
Proper noun
Kitee
- Kitee (a town and municipality of Finland)
Declension
The external locative cases (adessive, allative and ablative) are used with this place name when referring to a location; for example, "in Kitee" is Kiteellä.
| Inflection of Kitee (Kotus type 17/vapaa, no gradation) | |||
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| nominative | Kitee | — | |
| genitive | Kiteen | — | |
| partitive | Kiteetä | — | |
| illative | Kiteeseen | — | |
| singular | plural | ||
| nominative | Kitee | — | |
| accusative | nom. | Kitee | — |
| gen. | Kiteen | ||
| genitive | Kiteen | — | |
| partitive | Kiteetä | — | |
| inessive | Kiteessä | — | |
| elative | Kiteestä | — | |
| illative | Kiteeseen | — | |
| adessive | Kiteellä | — | |
| ablative | Kiteeltä | — | |
| allative | Kiteelle | — | |
| essive | Kiteenä | — | |
| translative | Kiteeksi | — | |
| abessive | Kiteettä | — | |
| instructive | — | — | |
| comitative | See the possessive forms below. | ||
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Derived terms
References
- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN
- ^ Itkonen, Erkki, Kulonen, Ulla-Maija, editors (1992–2000), Suomen sanojen alkuperä [The origin of Finnish words] (in Finnish) (online version; note: also includes other etymological sources; this source is labeled "SSA 1992–2000"), Helsinki: Institute for the Languages of Finland/Finnish Literature Society, →ISBN