Finnic adjectives for ‘tall’
In Finnic languages, the height of a tall person is described by the adjectives pitkä, korkea, suuri, iso and tobie, or their dialectal variants. The first three occur through out the whole language group, carrying several meanings and serving to characterize many different objects, but in a general...
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fttartuunivojs:oai:ojs.utlib.ee:article/15346 2023-05-15T17:01:34+02:00 Finnic adjectives for ‘tall’ Oja, Vilja 2012-12-31 application/pdf http://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/jeful.2012.3.1.12 https://doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2012.3.1.12 eng eng University of Tartu http://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/jeful.2012.3.1.12/10324 http://ojs.utlib.ee/index.php/jeful/article/view/jeful.2012.3.1.12 doi:10.12697/jeful.2012.3.1.12 Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics; Vol. 3 No. 1 (2012): Word and concept in the Estonian and Finno-Ugric languges; 243-258 2228-1339 1736-8987 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion 2012 fttartuunivojs https://doi.org/10.12697/jeful.2012.3.1.12 2021-01-04T21:34:27Z In Finnic languages, the height of a tall person is described by the adjectives pitkä, korkea, suuri, iso and tobie, or their dialectal variants. The first three occur through out the whole language group, carrying several meanings and serving to characterize many different objects, but in a general case their meanings do not coincide. The Finnic iso and the Karelian tobie are synonyms of the adjective suuri. An analysis of their semantic relations and areal distribution has revealed that their areas in the sense of ‘tall’ (of a person) differ considerably from their general areas. The use of the adjectives korkea and suuri seems to be influenced by Indo-European contacts. The word tobie may be a Russian loanword in which a semantic change has taken place. As all of the words mentioned are multifunctional, the simple adjectives are often specified by being used in a compound construction where the final component has the stem kasvu- ‘stature’. This is especially appropriate in the case of the words meaning ‘big’ and referring to either height or adulthood. Such phrases or compounds are more frequent in the eastern part of the Finnic area, but they also occur in Estonian dialects. An analogous form of expression is used in Russian. Article in Journal/Newspaper karelian University of Tartu: ojs.utlib.ee Korkea ENVELOPE(23.817,23.817,65.583,65.583) Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics 3 1 243 258 |
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In Finnic languages, the height of a tall person is described by the adjectives pitkä, korkea, suuri, iso and tobie, or their dialectal variants. The first three occur through out the whole language group, carrying several meanings and serving to characterize many different objects, but in a general case their meanings do not coincide. The Finnic iso and the Karelian tobie are synonyms of the adjective suuri. An analysis of their semantic relations and areal distribution has revealed that their areas in the sense of ‘tall’ (of a person) differ considerably from their general areas. The use of the adjectives korkea and suuri seems to be influenced by Indo-European contacts. The word tobie may be a Russian loanword in which a semantic change has taken place. As all of the words mentioned are multifunctional, the simple adjectives are often specified by being used in a compound construction where the final component has the stem kasvu- ‘stature’. This is especially appropriate in the case of the words meaning ‘big’ and referring to either height or adulthood. Such phrases or compounds are more frequent in the eastern part of the Finnic area, but they also occur in Estonian dialects. An analogous form of expression is used in Russian. |
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