Kemi
[ˈkɛm.i]Meaning
Yoruba feminine given name; Finnish place name, from the river Kemijoki
Background Story
A user-submitted entry records Kemi as a feminine given name in Yoruba. In Finnish it is a place name, originally that of the river Kemijoki, and Kemi is also a town and municipality of Finland. The place name is traditionally derived from the archaic Finnish kemi, "dry, poor meadow; quite barren land with dry and relatively thin soil", an etymology that has been disputed.
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