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Paleolinguistics brings more light on the earliest history of the traditional Eurasian pulse crops [PDF]

open access: yes, 2011
Traditional pulse crops such as pea, lentil, field bean, bitter vetch, chickpea and common vetch originate from Middle East, Mediterranean and Central Asia^1^.
Aleksandar Medovic   +7 more
core   +2 more sources

Survey of Previous Research on Livonian Prosody; 23-28 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2007
Livonian prosody is unique among the Uralic languages in that it contrasts short and long monophthongs, diphthongs, and triphthongs, prevocalic single and geminate consonants and word-final short and long consonants, word-final short and long consonants,
Tiit-Rein Viitso
doaj   +1 more source

The Administrative Structure of Narva and Its Role in Promoting of “Unusual Trade” in Livonian-Russian Borderlands During the 15th and Early 16th Centuries

open access: yesJournal of Frontier Studies
This article focuses on the study of administrative-legal framework of medieval Narva and its influence on development of the town’s economic potential within Livonian-Russian trade.
V. Yakunina
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The forms of third person and demonstrative pronouns in spoken Livonian recordings

open access: yesEesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 2022
This article studies the inflectional forms of Livonian third person and demonstrative pronouns as used in spoken language recordings. In Standard Livonian, these words have the nominative singular forms tämā/ta ‘he/she; this’, se ‘this’, tūo ‘that’, and
Marili Tomingas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

An analysis of Livonian werewolves in the Early Modern Era

open access: yesJournal of student-scientists' research, 2022
This paper seeks to do an in-depth investigation on the phenomenon of Early Modern era (1500-1700s) Livonian werewolves. Noting their uniqueness in comparison to contemporaneous werewolves hailing from different geographic areas, I suggest that the ...
Liu Jiaxin, Teddy Delwiche
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Locations of Eastern Baltic Sieges and Battle Sites in Written Sources of the Livonian Order

open access: yesVilnius University Open Series
This paper analyses possible locations of sieges and battles. The analyses were made mainly by using the Livonian chronicle and the Livonian Rhymed chronicle as well as supplementary literature.
Mantas Brazdžiūnas
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Livonian jussive: person and function

open access: yesEesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 2022
Alongside the imperative proper, Livonian has developed a secondary indirect imperative paradigm referred to as the jussive. The category of person is the most controversial category concerning imperatives.
M. Dailidėnaitė
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Perifrastic Future Devices in Salaca Livonian; pp. 27-40 [PDF]

open access: yesLinguistica Uralica, 2012
In Finnic languages, the future is often expressed by means of the present tense. In addition to the present tense, there are also periphrastic devices that convey the future.
Miina Norvik
doaj   +1 more source

The verb vajadzēt ‘to need, must’ in Latvian: its Livonian origins, modal and distributional features

open access: yesEesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics, 2022
The focus of this study is on the Latvian modal verb vajadzēt ‘to need, must’ derived from the noun vajaga ‘need, necessity’ believed to be a borrowing from Livonian vajag, vajāg ‘need, necessary’.
Andra Kalnača, Ilze Lokmane
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Main features of the Livonian sound system and pronunciation

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2016
The aim of this article is to give an overview of the Livonian sound system and pronunciation. Regarding Livonian dialectal variation, the main difference is between East and West Livonian, while Central Livonian forms a transition area. The basis of the
Tuuli Tuisk
doaj   +1 more source

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