Review article

https://doi.org/10.31724/rihjj.46.2.15

Digital Etymological Dictionary of the Oldest Vocabulary of Finnish

Santeri Junttila ; Universität Greifswald
Sampsa Holopainen orcid.org/0000-0001-6796-1648 ; University of Helsinki
Juho Pystynen orcid.org/0000-0002-4240-0331 ; University of Helsinki

Abstract

This paper presents the new project Digital etymological dictionary of the oldest vocabulary of Finnish (University of Helsinki, funded by the Kone Foundation) and discusses the present state and challenges of the (especially digital) etymological resources of the Finnic languages and Uralic languages in general. It is also shown how crowdsourcing of etymology can work, and how the present platform could be used in the etymological lexicography of other languages and language families.

Keywords

etymology; Finnish; Finnic languages; Uralic languages; digital humanities

Hrčak ID:

245466

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/245466

Publication date:

30.10.2020.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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