Latest posts tagged with #Votic on Bluesky
seeming absence from former #Votic, #Mordvin, #Ingrian, etc. communities, we are probably working from skewed sources anyway. And whether the word either comes from #Finnish #väinämö for #minstrel, or this and the personal forename #Väinämö are simply short forms of #Väinämöinen, as #Väinö also
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forthcoming extinction of #Votic, a language very close to #Estonian, with perhaps only a dozen or so speakers left alive, if that.
#A_Rambling_Dictionary_of_Tallinn_Street_Names
#TallinnStreets #TallinnaTänavad
#NõukogudeOkupatsioon
#Communism #Kommunism
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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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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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Eng. field, etc., and #German did undergo a ‘p’ to ‘f’ switch at one stage, but I find it strange that most all of Est.’s relatives have very similar cognates across the board, ranging in proximity from #Votic #põlto and #Finn. #pelto, through #Ludic #peld(o) and #Veps #põud, to the remote(ish)
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an #õu (prob. an FU word for door or gate, e.g. #Finnish & #Karelian ovi; #Mansi āwi; or #Votic övvi, courtyard; etc.) from 1970-80. Not quite sure what the difference is: both may be translated by #courtyard, but perhaps, like the #English #dyads of bull and beef (from #French "bœuf),
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and Latv. #suns. Koer on söbber senni kui pead sillitad, a dog is your friend as long as you stroke its head.”). The #opposite seems to be the case. Word and often-related meaning shared across #FU languages, where #Votic seems to encapsulate the essence of its footprint:
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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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raises interesting parallels in the sense of beginnings. Close to this, other FU language cognates suggest weak, insipid (and hence easily exploited) #trees: #Veps hago: windbreak; #Votic hako: weathered tree; #Ludian hago, flawed tree…
#Beginnings #Algused
#Nature #Loodus
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The meaning of the word in #Estonian seems to have shifted over time, and the #fuzziness around the word is reflected in its neighbors: #loog has pretty-much identical #cognates in #Finnish, #Veps, #Votic and so on, where #Russian, лyг (lug) means #meadow,
#Agriculture #PõlluMajandus
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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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