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Kitee.

Kitee (a town and municipality of North Karelia, Finland)

5 characters2 syllables approx.Suomi language

Meaning & usage

name/ˈkiteː/[ˈk̟it̪e̞ː]
  1. Kitee (a town and municipality of North Karelia, Finland)

Where this word comes from

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 (in which case the name initially applied to the river). The adjective in question is probably akin to kitistä.

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Last enriched 2026-09-10. Definitions are in English. Romanizations are shown when supplied by the source; syllable estimates are omitted for unsupported scripts.