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Baltic and Finnic linguistic relations reflected in geolinguistic studies of the Baltic languages [PDF]
Eesti 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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The Words for Malt in Finnic Languages [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2021 The article analyses the words used for malt in Finnic dialects, taking into account their structure, etymologies, semantics and area of distribution. The words come from six different roots: variants of idu are used for malt in Karelian, Ludic, Veps and
Vilja Oja
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The expression of change-of-state in the Finnic languages
Open Linguistics, 2020 The present article studies verbs that are used to convey change-of-state in the Finnic languages: “to come”, “to go”, “to remain/stay”, “to get”, “will be”, “to make/do”, and “to be born/give birth”.
Norvik Miina
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The Loanword mei(j)u in Finnic Languages; pp. 161-171 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2014 The custom of bringing home young birches and green branches for spring/summer festivities has been practised by Proto-Finnic as well as by Germanic peoples ever since pre-Christian times.
Vilja Oja
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Words for Flax in the Finnic Languages [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 Vilja Oja
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Puppenbezeichnungen in den ostseefinnischen Sprachen. Terms for ’Doll’ in Finnic Languages; pp. 81-98 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2012 The names for âdollâ that might be nominated for term status in the Finnic languages originate in the following 16 word stems: d'it'a, kukla, lell, molla-, muÄa-, nukk, pipÄ, pupe, raukka, titt, tokka, tütti, vauva, vunukka, vänts, äppö.
Vilja Oja
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Sound symbolism of expressive verbs in Finnic languages (Estonian, Finnish, Ingrian, Votic)
Eesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015 This article will study language, using the contrastive-descriptive method, as a phonetic imitation of the world around us, and will concentrate on the verb vocabulary, based on sound imitation and natural sound imitation, characteristic of the Finnic ...
Heinike Heinsoo, Eva Saar
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Oskar Looritsa liivi folkloori kogu [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2022 The Estonian Folklore Archives of the Estonian Literary Museum hold a valuable collection of Livonian ethnography and folklore – Oskar Loorits’ collection of Livonian folklore.
Tuuli Tuisk
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A Geolinguistic Comparison of Some Finnic Lexical Issues [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The study is based on material collected for the Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum (ALFE), which is a joint project prepared by Finnish, Estonian and Karelian linguists.
Vilja Oja
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A Few More Possible Traces of the Lost Language Chain of North-East Europe [PDF]
Linguistica 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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