Kemi

kemi -kemi English thumb|Icebreaker Sampo in Kemi harbour Etymology Borrowed from en fi Kemi. Proper noun en Q203619en town/and/municipality r/Lapland c/Finland near the border with Sweden. en Q214779en river r/Lapland in northern c/Finland with its mouth at the town of Kemi. Translations town Arabic: ar كيمي Belarusian: be Кемі Bulgarian: bg Кеми Chinese: Cantonese: yue 基米 Mandarin: cmn 凯米 Finnish: fi Kemi Japanese: ja ケミ Kemi Korean: ko ^케미 Russian: ru Кеми Sami: Northern Sami: se Giepma Serbo-Croatian: sh Кеми Swedish: sv Kemi n river Finnish: fi Kemijoki Swedish: sv Kemi älv c Anagrams en eikm Keim Kime Mike kime mike Finnish Etymology At least in Finland, originally the name of the river (fi Kemijoki). The place name in Finland at least has traditionally been derived from the archaic Finnish term fi kemi dry, poor meadow; quite barren land with dry and relatively thin soil. Heikkilä (2014) disputes this etymology, and instead argues that the name is rather, like fi Kymi (as Heikkilä argues), ultimately from fi gem-pro *kwēmijaz easily accessible or passable; the form fi Kemi would be derived via a fi smi language.Mikko K. Heikkilä, Bidrag till Fennoskandiens språkliga förhistoria i tid och rum (2014). pp. 255–259 Rahkonen (2013) on the other hand associates the names with fi urj-fpr-pro *käme, which may have been borrowed through a Uralic substrate language.Rahkonen, Pauli. Suomen etymologisesti läpinäkymätöntä vesistönimistöä. Virittäjä 1/2013. pp. 23—24. The surname derives from place names, or separately from the aforementioned fi kemi (which, if not the origin of the proper noun, is likely of the same origin anyway). Early attestations of the place name include fi Kijm (1386), fi Kym (1443), sv Kem sokn (1445). Pronunciation fi Proper noun fi Kemi Q203619 fi town federal subject/Republic of Karelia c/Russia Kem often qualified as fi Vienan Kemi fi Finnish Declension internal Kemi Kemissä Kem ä Derived terms fi kemiläinen fi compounds Kemijoki Kemijärvi Keminmaa keminsaame Related terms fi Kemiö, fi Kiminki, fi Kymi possibly Descendants 1 en Kemi 1 ja ケミ 1 ko 케미 1 sv Kemi Statistics dvv_20250813 293 2706 5 References Anagrams fi eikm Mike Japanese Romanization ケミ