|
Liiva meaning 'sand beach, (fine) sand and grit', is borrowed from the Estonian word Liiv 'sand'. Hatru, which means seaweed, known in Kymenlaakso, is also a word for the outer islands. Lots of loans at Inker Several of the words presented above are also known in the Finnish dialects spoken in Inkeri.
Finnish-Estonian loanwords USA Email List from Inkerinmaa are, for example, aitti , puosta , elotupa , jampsia , Vokki , 'kupperkeikka' in the form of kukkerpalli , the four saints , Koppeli , tihti , erevä , las , seltsi , toitto , putti , karppi , riista , vaatti , tyky and Liiva. In general, the language situation in Western Inger has been special.
Four Baltic Finnish languages have been spoken there: Finnish dialects, Inger dialects, Vatja and Estonian. This has caused that all these languages have a lot of borrowing from each other. What about southwestern Finland? In southwestern Finland, there are some words that have been considered as possible Estonian loans. However, researching this borrowing is difficult, among other things, because there is no historical information about the contacts between southwestern Finland and Estonia, as there is about the younger connections in the Gulf of Finland.
|
|