#finnic — Public Fediverse posts

My language family tree.
Now almost all of this is russified.
With contemporary Russians claiming ”slavic heritage” of many cultural artefacts developed by Finno-Ugrians.
That’s how empire works.
#finnic #finnish #estonian #finnougriclanguages #russia

🔴 🎥 Germanic Loanwords in Finnic Languages (with Dr. Johan Schalin)

“Dr. Johan Schalin presents on the fascinating history of the long interaction between Germanic (primarily Scandinavian) languages and Finnic languages, and the many different periods in which Germanic loanwords entered and became a part of Finnic.”

#Video length: one hour and thirty four minutes.

🔗 https://youtu.be/LIgKd0Ovzy8

#LoanWords #Words #Germanic #Finnic #Language #Languages #Linguistics #Scandinavia #Europe @linguistics

@yvanspijk
Words like this are not easily borrowed, but a derivative made its way to Finnic from Low German/Dutch (possibly also via Swedish): Fi. ahteri ‘stern of ship’ (> coll. ‘butt’).

Some *ab(a)-prefixed words have also been borrowed. My favourite is Low Saxon aff-late ‘indulgence, AB-solution of sins’ > ‘divine service’ (Livonian lōt) > ‘market’ (Estonian laat). The prefix itself, however, got lost in the process. Finnic speakers obviously didn't appreciate it.
#etymology #Finnic

There are thousands of scrolls of birch bark lodged in the soil in Novgorod, and they demonstrate a surprising level of popular literacy in the medieval period.

One of the scrolls (any word you use will be too fancy for the real thing, which is literally just a scrap of bark) is the earliest written text in a Balto-Finnic language (cool) and contains a spell or incantation of some kind (very cool).

I've been fascinated with birch bark letter #292 for a long time, so it was an obvious choice for a 'vaguely Finnish, weirdly specific' video.

Take a moment to enjoy my enthusiastic gesticulating about transliteration and back pain - and if you are particularly diverted, do give it a boost.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tk1ie5fyrY0

#birchbark #gramota #filtrit #linguistics #archaeology #Finnish #finnic #literacy #myth #magic #medieval #Karelian

My turn! Tomorrow's Filtrit episode is *extremely* vaguely Finnish and very, very specific. Archaeological treasure, linguistic mystery, the concept of literacy and the ire of ancient gods - what's not to like?

I had to learn medieval Cyrillic to make it, so commitment to the bit is strong in this one. 📜💪

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#linguistics #archaeology #finnic #filtrit #myth #language #translation #translitteration #literacy #medieval

@exaggerated I am actually more into #Germanic myself, but trying to keep up with #Finnic sound history as well: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/335789039_Scandinavian-Finnic_Language_Contact_and_Problems_of_Periodisation

@elmerot @linguistics That is definitely a possibility, but not a certain fact. That etymology would result in two different explanations for #FennoSwedish “mojn” and “morjens” respectively.

The Finnish greeting is discussed in Mikko #Bentlins doctoral thesis on Middle #LowGerman loanwords in #Finnish.

Equally intriguing, but not discussed anywhere, is the origin of Baltic #Finnic “hei”.

@elmerot @linguistics That is definitely a possibility, but not a certain fact. That etymology would result in two different explanations for #FennoSwedish “mojn” and “morjens” respectively.

The Finnish greeting is discussed in Mikko #Bentlins doctoral thesis on Middle #LowGerman loanwords in #Finnish.

Equally intriguing, but not discussed anywhere, is the origin of Baltic #Finnic “hei”.

@elmerot @linguistics That is definitely a possibility, but not a certain fact. That etymology would result in two different explanations for #FennoSwedish “mojn” and “morjens” respectively.

The Finnish greeting is discussed in Mikko #Bentlins doctoral thesis on Middle #LowGerman loanwords in #Finnish.

Equally intriguing, but not discussed anywhere, is the origin of Baltic #Finnic “hei”.

@elmerot @linguistics That is definitely a possibility, but not a certain fact. That etymology would result in two different explanations for #FennoSwedish “mojn” and “morjens” respectively.

The Finnish greeting is discussed in Mikko #Bentlins doctoral thesis on Middle #LowGerman loanwords in #Finnish.

Equally intriguing, but not discussed anywhere, is the origin of Baltic #Finnic “hei”.

@elmerot @linguistics That is definitely a possibility, but not a certain fact. That etymology would result in two different explanations for #FennoSwedish “mojn” and “morjens” respectively.

The Finnish greeting is discussed in Mikko #Bentlins doctoral thesis on Middle #LowGerman loanwords in #Finnish.

Equally intriguing, but not discussed anywhere, is the origin of Baltic #Finnic “hei”.