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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”.
Miina Norvik
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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
doaj   +5 more sources

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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Words for Flax in the Finnic Languages [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2022
Vilja Oja
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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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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
doaj   +1 more source

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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Wie der Wegerich in den ostseefinnischen Sprachen zu seinem Namen kam [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2022
The plantain (Plantago) has many names in Finnic languages. Names motivated by ’road’ as the habitat of the plant can be found not only in every Finnic language, but also in most of their more distant relatives.
Vilja Oja
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On the Evidence of the Verbal 3rd Person Suffix *-sV in Uralic [PDF]

Linguistica Uralica, 2022
In the olden times the Uralic languages involved in parallel both personal pronouns and personal suffixes. The clarification of the reasons for phonetic similarities of the consonant matter in personal pronouns and personal suffixes is not quite possible
Ago Künnap
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