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Kitee
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English
Proper noun
en Q491603en town/and/municipality r/North Karelia c/Finland.
Translations
town
Finnish: fi Kitee
Swedish: sv Kides n
Finnish
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Etymology
From a dialectal form fi kit(t)ee of the dialectal adjective fi kiteä (of cold weather) severe; slow, probably referring to how the river Kitee flows relatively slowly (in which case the name initially applied to the river). The adjective in question is probably akin to fi kitistä.
Pronunciation
Proper noun
fi Kitee Q491603
Declension
external Kitee Kiteellä
Kite ä sg
Derived terms
fi kiteeläinen
References
Anagrams
fi eeikt ikeet itkee keite