Finnic Numerals for ’8’ and ’9’ and a Possible Parallel from Samoyed [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The paper deals with a suffix contained in the Finnic numerals for âeightâ and ânineâ, such as the Estonian kahe-ksa and ühe-ksa. Taking into consideration the forms of some southern varieties of Finnic, such as Votic and Livonian, it is ...
Valentin Gusev
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In Search of Toponymic Borders in Belozerye [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2016 The article presents some results of the expedition aimed at documenting toponymic and lexical substratal data in the Lake Beloye area (Belozerye). The survey was carried out in the summer of 2015 in the south-western part of Belozersky District around ...
Ekaterina V. Zakharova +2 more
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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]
Linguistica 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 ~ ÂProto-Germ *blÄstra-z (cf. Old Norse blástr m âBlasen, Schwellungâ etc).
Lembit Vaba
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’Ščast´je’ i ’udača’ v finno-ugorskih jazykah [Abstract. The Concepts ’luck’ and ’success’ in Finno-Ugric Languages]; pp. 265-275 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2012 The language material analysed enables the conclusion that in different Finno-Ugric languages the concepts âluckâ and âsuccessâ are expressed using various linguistic means, such as polysemous nouns, verb phrases, or idioms.
Jevgenij Cypanov
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Contact‐Induced Changes in Morphosyntax: An Introduction
, 2023 Transactions of the Philological Society, Volume 121, Issue 3, Page 331-335, November 2023.
Michele Bianconi, Robin Meyer
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Rhyme Correspondences between Sinitic and Uralic Languages: On the Example of the Finnish -ala and -aja Rhymes; pp. 94-108 [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2014 The present study explores rhyme correspondences between Finnic (~ Uralic) and Sinitic languages, taking the Finnish -ala and -aja rhymes as an example.
Jingyi Gao
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Pseudolingvistika kui folkloorinähtus [PDF]
Mäetagused, 2014 The article discusses pseudo-linguistic theories about the kinship of the Estonian language published since the 1920s. The author describes these theories, pointing to their characteristic features and causes of origin, and then proceeds to give an ...
Maarja Villandi
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Distances among Uralic and Other Northern Eurasian Languages [PDF]
Linguistica Uralica, 2022 The present occurrence or non-occurrence of 46 structural features is analyzed in language groups ranging from Finnic to Eskimo-Aleut. Normalized measures of commonalities and distances between two languages are developed and used for graphical ...
Rein Taagepera, Ago Künnap
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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]
Linguistica Uralica, 2021 The possible Baltic origin of the Finnic word *vana âflood, inundationâ is discussed: Baltic *tvana-: Lithuanian tvãnas, tvãnai pl âdeluge of a river, inundation, flood; a large number (of); abscessâetc.
Lembit Vaba
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Metaphors of language : the Vepsian ecology challenges an international paradigm [PDF]
, 2015 Peer reviewedPublisher ...
Siragusa, Laura
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