A Finnic holy word and its subsequent history

• Published in: Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis
• Main Author: Koski, Mauno
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: The Donner Institute 1990
• Subjects: Linguistics; Finnish language; Finno-Ugric languages; Finland; Estonia; Language > Etymology; Paganism; Cults; Mythology; Finno-Ugrian; Häme; karelia*; karelian; vepsian
• Online Access: https://journal.fi/scripta/article/view/67189; https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67189

This article concentrates on a specific ancient holy word in Finnish and its subsequent development, hiisi. In the Finnish language region hiisi appears as an element in place names in over 230 villages established by the end of the thirteenth century, and at least a majority of these must have exis...