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Baltic and Finnic linguistic relations reflected in geolinguistic studies of the Baltic languages [PDF]

open access: diamondEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2014
The article provides insight into the reflection of Baltic and Finnic language contacts in geolinguistic studies of the Baltic languages. These contacts have a rather long history, and are particularly intense between the Latvian language and Finnic ...
Anna Stafecka
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Early Finnic-Baltic contacts as evidenced by archaeological and linguistic data [PDF]

open access: diamondEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016
Long-lasting and intense contacts between Finnic and Baltic tribes resulted in the linguistic and material intertwining of the cultures of these two groups, which belong to two different language families.
Valter Lang
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Anmerkungen hinsichtlich einer baltischen Herkunft von osfi. *vana *’Hochwasser, Überschwemmung’ [On the Baltic Origin of the Finnic *vana *’flood, inundation’] [PDF]

open access: diamondLinguistica Uralica, 2021
The possible Baltic origin of the Finnic word *vana ’flood, inundation’ is discussed: Baltic *tvana-: Lithuanian tvãnas, tvãnai pl ’deluge of a river, inundation, flood; a large number (of); abscess’etc.
Lembit Vaba
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Lembit Vaba, Über eine mögliche baltische Herkunft von frühosfi. *lēćća *’Blasebalg’ [On the Possible Baltic Origin of the Early Proto-Finnic *lēćća ­*’bellows’]; pp. 161-167 [PDF]

open access: greenLinguistica Uralica, 2016
There is still no consensus about the origin of the Finnic word family represented by, e.g. Fin lietsa, Est lõõts etc. The alleged Germanic etymology ~ ­Proto-Germ *blēstra-z (cf. Old Norse blástr m ’Blasen, Schwellung’ etc).
Lembit Vaba
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Genetic Heritage of the Balto-Slavic Speaking Populations: A Synthesis of Autosomal, Mitochondrial and Y-Chromosomal Data. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS One, 2015
Here, we characterize genetic variation in all extant ethnic groups speaking Balto-Slavic languages by analyzing mitochondrial DNA (n = 6,876), Y-chromosomes (n = 6,079) and genome-wide SNP profiles (n = 296), within the context of other European ...
Kushniarevich A   +39 more
europepmc   +3 more sources

A Few More Possible Traces of the Lost Language Chain of North-East Europe [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2022
There are numerous exceptional similarities between some of the east- and southward Finnic languages and Permic languages, in particular in case of the Veps, South-Estonian and Komi languages.
Ago Künnap
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The Finnic-Mordvinic lepp [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2022
The noun leppä (or one of its phonetic variants) is used as a name for ’alder (Alnus)’ in Finnic, Mordvinic and Lapp. The same word denotes ’bleeding’ as well as ’blood of a killed animal’ or — as in some dialects — just ’fish or seal ...
Vilja Oja
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