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Article #222Re: Ethmylogy for Baltic etc
From: Paul Hopkins
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07:19
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 1992 07:19
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In article <0095E423.4A8F95C0@VENUS> tjk@VENUS (tjk@ecs.soton.ac.uk (Tom Kazmierski)) writes: > >I learned from you that Scandinavians refer to it as "East Sea" - like the >Germans. Does anyone know about the Finns? Surely, it's not "East" for them :-) Well, believe or not, it is. The Finnish term for 'Baltic Sea' is Ita"meri, which literally means 'Eastern Sea'. Interestingly enough, their neighbours to the south, the Estonians, call this body of water the La"a"nemeri, which literally means 'Western Sea'. So either the Estonians are better with the compass than the Finns :-), or the Finnish term is a loan translation from Swedish. Any other suggestions? > >Regards Paul Hopkins (former) treasurer of the Finno-Ugric Studies Association of Canada but certainly not a native speaker of either Finnish or Estonian!
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Newsgroups: sci.lang,soc.culture.soviet Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!cs.utexas.edu!usc!sol.ctr.columbia.edu!destroyer!ubc-cs!news.UVic.CA!sol.UVic.CA!phopkins From: phopkins@sol.UVic.CA (Paul Hopkins) Subject: Re: Ethmylogy for Baltic etc Message-ID: <1992Jul31.071916.24518@sol.UVic.CA> Sender: news@sol.UVic.CA Nntp-Posting-Host: sol.uvic.ca Organization: University of Victoria, Victoria, B.C. CANADA References: <1992Jul25.223032.17461@enea.se> <1992Jul26.013347.17567@corax.udac.uu.se> <0095E423.4A8F95C0@VENUS> Date: Fri, 31 Jul 92 07:19:16 GMT Lines: 19