Monthly Archives: April 2019

Not So Freelance Soon

Posted on Tue 2019-04-30 by sansdomino — 4 Comments

The countdown has begun: my PhD applications are in, to be followed by grant applications later this year (right now I am employed enough with other work). This will surely call for the long-imminent rebranding of this blog away from…

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Etymology squib: riipustaa

Posted on Fri 2019-04-19 by sansdomino — 19 Comments

I happened today upon a small etymological review article “Lat. scrībere in Germanic“, which argues that this is indeed a loanword rather than a cognate, but a relatively early one, already roughly into Proto-West Germanic. This got me thinking about…

Tagged with: finnish, historical linguistics, linguistics, loanwords
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An Old Komi inscription

Posted on Thu 2019-04-11 by sansdomino — 1 Comment

From A. J. Sjögren’s Die Sürjänen (orig. 1829), more exactly the reprint in his Gesammelte Schriften I (1861, edited by F. J. Wiedemann): I do not have a transcription or any other analysis to offer, alas. For one, while “Old…

Tagged with: epigraphy, komi, linguistics, philology
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The origin of the Finnic long vowels: An outline

Posted on Sat 2019-04-06 by sansdomino — 9 Comments

Continued from my thesis release post, as is perhaps appropriate now that I finally have wrapped up my graduation as well. To make it a bit more convenient for readers, I provide here an English outline of the specific topics…