Hiittinen
Appearance
Finnish
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From dialectal hiiti/hiitti + -inen, derived from hiisi (“sacred site”). Probably originally a name for the island of the same name that is one of the two major islands within this municipality.[1]
Pronunciation
[edit]Proper noun
[edit]Hiittinen
- A former municipality in Finland, merged with Dragsfjärd in 1969.
Declension
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References
[edit]- ^ Sirkka Paikkala, editor (2007), Suomalainen paikannimikirja [Book of Finnish Place names] (in Finnish), Helsinki: Karttakeskus, Kotimaisten kielten tutkimuskeskus, →ISBN