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The manifestations of Livonian intangible cultural heritage across the Latvian and Estonian border: framing early field notes from research sites

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2022
Today the Livonian core area includes 14 coastal villages on the northern Courland peninsula in the northwest of Latvia. Yet, the manifestations of Livonian intangible heritage can be observed in several cultural landscapes as Livonians once inhabited ...
Lolita Ozoliņa   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Double Standard: Livonian Chronicles and Muscovite Barbarity during the Livonian War (1558–1582) [PDF]

open access: yesStudia Slavica et Balcanica Petropolitana, 2018
This article analyzes the image of Ivan IV (Ivan the Terrible) and Muscovites in the chronicles written by Livonian Germans during the Livonian War: Johannes Renner’s Livonian History, Balthasar Russow’s Chronicle, and Salomon Henning’s Chronicle of ...
Halperin, Charles
openaire   +2 more sources

Enlightenment Influences on Lutheran Liturgical Life in Livonia in the Late Eighteenth and Early Nineteenth Centuries [PDF]

open access: yesActa Historica Tallinnensia, 2022
This article examines the influence of the Enlightenment on the liturgical life of the Livonian Lutheran Church in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when many clergymen set aside traditional liturgical forms and introduced new ones ...
Darius Petkūnas
doaj   +1 more source

Social inequalities in famine mortality in the manorial system of the tsarist Russian province of Livland in the mid‐1840s

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, Volume 76, Issue 4, Page 1333-1356, November 2023., 2023
Abstract By relying on longitudinal data on two rural parishes in the Russian Baltic province of Livland, the article analyses two questions concerning famine's short‐run effects on mortality in a manorial system: (1) whether there is evidence of a social gradient in mortality during the famine of 1844–6 and (2) whether the manors could protect the ...
Kersti Lust   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Superlative Morphology from Syntax: Slavic Nai‐/Naj‐ and Internal Definiteness Marking in Old Lithuanian

open access: yesTransactions of the Philological Society, Volume 120, Issue 1, Page 103-127, March 2022., 2022
Abstract It has long been noticed that the Slavic superlative prefix nai‐/naj‐ comprises two components: *na + *i. The former can be identified with the preposition Sl na ‘on(to)’ which developed an intensifying meaning when used as a prefix. The origin of the second component, on the other hand, has not been determined satisfactorily so far.
Florian Wandl
wiley   +1 more source

Development, Research and Sources of Written Livonian; pp. 55-67 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2012
Written Livonian started forming in the mid-19th century, when the first more comprehensive language studies as well as editions containing language samples began to be published.
Valts Ernštreits
doaj   +1 more source

The Loanword mei(j)u in Finnic Languages; pp. 161-171 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica 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
doaj   +1 more source

Lutsi speakers and rememberers in the late 20th and early 21st centuries

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2021
This article describes the language of the last speakers of Lutsi as well as their family background and the sources of their language knowledge, in order to show the paths by which Lutsi language knowledge – even if only of a fragmentary sort – has ...
Uldis Balodis
doaj   +1 more source

Hospitality industry economic innovation out of tradition small–medium‐size enterprises in North‐Eastern Thailand

open access: yesAustralian Economic Papers, Volume 59, Issue 4, Page 319-335, December 2020., 2020
Abstract This study focuses on the creation of economic innovation out of tradition in small–medium‐size hospitality industry enterprises in the north‐eastern part of Thailand. We looked at the role of the roots of the business on its development and the roots vary from existing old traditional accommodations, to accommodations that developed out of a ...
Adisak Suvittawat
wiley   +1 more source

The Temporal Structure of Livonian Tri-, Tetra- and Pentasyllabic Words; pp. 177-195 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2015
The article focuses on Livonian trisyllabic, tetrasyllabic and pentasyllabic words, comparing the temporal structures of non-initial syllables and secondary-stressed feet.
Tuuli Tuisk
doaj   +1 more source

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