6. In recent years, bilingual road signs and children being raised with Livonian show what community-driven revival can look like.
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compiler of various #dictionaries (e.g. #EhstnischDeutschesWörterbuch (1869), Estonian-German dictionary) and grammars of northern coastal #Estonian, #Võru, #Livonian, #Syjranisch (aka Siranian, Sirenian, Sirjenic, Syrjenic also written Zirianian, a perhaps now extinct #Finnish dialect of the
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cf. #punni in #Livonian, but #verrev in #Võro, and #vörös in #Hungarian, where #veri in #Estonian, #Finnish and #Livonian means blood. On the other hand, red in #Veps is #rus(ked) or #čak, indicating a #Lappish relation, cf. #ruoksat or similar in various #Sámi dialects, while #blood in
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#shelter, hut or stopover, as suggested by its neighboring #Izhorian, #Karelian, #Ludian and, to a lesser extent #Finnish, #Livonian and #Votic. Records date back to 1374, known as #Suddenpe in 1421, prob. #MLG+#OldEst. for “On the marsh” (südde/sudde = morass or swamp + pe>pea) (see #Narva).
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#Kivi (Kivi)
#Tallinn #Nõmme #Rahumäe
#Stone, #rock, #boulder. Judging by the large number of cognates (among other things) – kivi #Finnish, #Karelian, #Izhorian, #Olonets, Ludian & #Veps), tšivi (#Votic, for stone, flint, millstone...), ki’v (and variants, #Livonian), кӱ (#Mari),
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Igen / kyllä /jah and #Livonian language is missing in the list. www.britannica.com/topic/Uralic... via @britannica.com
later morphing into coat color, with FU cognates varying from plain red in #Finnish #puna and #punainen, #Votic puna, and #Livonian #pu’nni, through shades of brown and red (see #Lepa), to offshoots such as #strawberry- or blood-red in #Estonian, red or #SnowBunting in #Karelian (#punaine),
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#Piksepeni (Piksepeni)
#Tallinn #Pirita #Lepiku
Lit. #Thunderstorm #dog (#peni [or penni or pini] is an alternative or #dialect word for dog, more common in the southern half of #Estonia, cf. #Livonian #piņ, but see also Eastern (Ter?) #Sámi #pienneoi in #Eerikneeme, or #beana in Northern(?)
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#Latvian #lauks (or tīrums) and #Lith. #laukas, #Võru #põld and #nurḿ and #Livonian #nuŗm which latter are cognates with Est. #nurm (meadow, field, lea…). Briefly (1940-41) known as #Põllumehe, farmers (sing. #Põllumees). Parallel to #Saha.
#Geography #Geograafia
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
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#Ronga (Ronk)
#Tallinn #Kristiine #Lilleküla #Mooni
Also known as #Kaaren (see #Kaarna), the common #raven, or just plain raven, or #corbie, Corvus corax. Name of Baltic-Finnish origin, cognate of #Livonian #kronk and related to both #LivviKarelian #kronkuttua and #Lithuanian #krankti, to croak.
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cf. #punni in #Livonian, but #verrev in #Võro, and #vörös in #Hungarian, where #veri in #Estonian, #Finnish and #Livonian means #blood. On the other hand, red in #Veps is #rus(ked) or #čak, indicating a #Lappish relation, cf. #ruoksat or similar in various #Sami dialects, while blood
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Tallinn streetsign displaying the name Härjapea. But! Are you Estonian? Are you confused? No course for alarm. This and the next three photographs illustrate some of the peculiarities of Tallinn street-naming conventions. Whereas the present photo indicates Härjapea 1, it is actually the 2nd house in Härjapea. Heina 11, on the other hand, being a house on Heina, thus merits its designation as No.11. It sort of makes sense, but why, then, on the other side of the road, is Härjapea 2 closest to Heina while Heina 13 is ‘downstream’ and the second house in Härjapea?
Streetsign of Härjapea 2, house closest to Heina while Heina 13 is next door and further away from Heina?
Streetsign of Heina 13, house further from Heina than Härjapea 2...
Streetsign of Heina 11, house on Heina numbered also as Härjapea I. God save you all!
however, while the Lithuanian and Latvian meant horse, and the Prussian gelding, other neighboring Finnic languages (#Finnish, #Livonian, #Veps, #Votic, etc.) amble around ox, steer, bull, etc., which EES convincingly suggests is due to a perception of function (draft) rather than form (animal).
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Building alonside Kaevuri, Tallinn.
Front of car built onto building as logo for car-repair company in Kaevuri, Tallinn.
Building and birch trees in Kaevuri, Tallinn.
#Livonian kouvõ, €Finnish and #Votic kaivaa for to dig or dig up, and more distantly from eastern FU languages for spade: #Erzya, kojme; #Moksha, kajmä; #Nganasan, kaibu, etc. Even so, the two #PIE roots – *keue-, swelling, arch, cavity, and *keup-, a hollow (see #Palli)
#Etymology #Etümoloogia
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Front view of old house with top-storey pulley system for hoisting goods in Sauna, Tallinn.
the #Finnish word for soap #saippua, but this seems too remote (see #Seebi). What appears to be the safest clue is – other than its Finnish, #Livonian, #Votic, etc. cognates deriving from early #ProtoFinnic *sakńa meaning #sauna in the broad sense (see above) – its use in
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Here is #folk group #TuļļiLum of #Estonia, who use #Livonian lyrics from #Latvia.
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#LunchtimeListens #WorldMusic
[or, possibly, ‘village No.1’] in #Livonian cf. #German, Üxküll or Uexküll] in present-day #Latvia), Cistercian #BishopBerthold of Hanover, on his bolting horse during the #LivonianCrusade in 1198. Little or nothing else is known about him. Name of #Estonian choral society founded in #Riga 1880.
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the #SovietOccupation.An interesting aside to this is that the #Livonian for ‘person’ or ‘human’ is #rištīng, which is pretty instantly recognizable as derived from #Christian (Ger. Christin). This is awkward. Since we know that the word ‘cretin’...
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
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#translator (although some would say ‘re-writer’) of #Maupassant, #EdgarAllenPoe, #Turgenev, #MikaWaltari, and a dab of #Sophocles, #Apuleius, etc., An all-round linguist with, in addition to the languages implied above, #German, #Livonian, #Mordvin, #Swedish, and varying degrees of...
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#Häll is more a southern #Estonian or #Livonian word. In northern dialects they say #Kätki, cf. #Finnish #kätkyt. In this instance, though, named after a former #farm.
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The suggestion that the latter comes from #Polish #wiesęcę, an obscure word said to mean ‘notice’ or ‘rumor’, seems unlikely, but it could come from the #Livonian name, Vesithe. And while this area, loosely, was one of #OldBeliever immigration from #Russia (see #Sikuti),
#Onomastics #Onomastika
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(itself possibly related to Finnish luoja, #creator, or to a hypothetical verb such as *luotaa, to descend), #Karelian luuveh for west or #southwest, #Livonian lūod and #Ludian luodeh for vanilla west, and back to #Veps and #Votic with lode / lodeh and loo / looto / looõ for northwest or west,
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livonian
- A member of the livonian-speaking people of latvia
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#definition #livonian #meaning #english #ielts
