Kemiö

kemio Finnish fi:+nsaari (saari) Etymology According to SPNK, from earlier fi *Kymitty with unclear development. However, Heikkilä (2014) simply associates this with the place names of fi Kemi and fi Kymi, arguing that they are all of the same origin (ultimately from gem-pro *kwēmijaz easily passable, accessible), perhaps via Sami. He states that the Swedish name sv Kimitö derives from an earlier fi *Kimittä < fi *Kimiccä, from a Sami diminutive literally meaning small fairway, passage.Mikko K. Heikkilä, Bidrag till Fennoskandiens språkliga förhistoria i tid och rum (2014). pp. 255–259 Heikkilä does not, however, expound on the development of the Finnish form fi Kemiö, in particular its ending. Pronunciation Proper noun fi Kemiönsaari island fi former municipality r/Southwest Finland c/Finland, merged with Kimitoön in 2009 Declension sg Kemiö ä Derived terms fi compounds Kemiönsaari Related terms fi Kemi, fi Kiminki, fi Kymi possibly References