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Clifford Marcus
Clifford Marcus
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İspanyolca > İngilizce
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German influence Feb 12, 2007

In an idle moment in Tallinn I noticed that many Estonian words miss out an initial s from the German - peglin, tudent, traf, tube - mirror, student, fine, room. But, this is my question, this also occurs in Finnish as well (I know the Finish for mirror is cognate with peglin) so it can't just be Germans going into Estonia, but some deeper Germanic influence.
My Estonian credentials are slim, but I am the proud holder of a Certificate in Elementary Estonian from a language school in Tallin... See more
In an idle moment in Tallinn I noticed that many Estonian words miss out an initial s from the German - peglin, tudent, traf, tube - mirror, student, fine, room. But, this is my question, this also occurs in Finnish as well (I know the Finish for mirror is cognate with peglin) so it can't just be Germans going into Estonia, but some deeper Germanic influence.
My Estonian credentials are slim, but I am the proud holder of a Certificate in Elementary Estonian from a language school in Tallinn. ▲ Collapse
 
Margot-Helena Kasari
Margot-Helena Kasari
Estonya
Local time: 02:24
Estonca > İngilizce
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Estonian words? Apr 10, 2007

Clifford Marcus wrote:

In an idle moment in Tallinn I noticed that many Estonian words miss out an initial s from the German - peglin, tudent, traf, tube - mirror, student, fine, room. But, this is my question, this also occurs in Finnish as well (I know the Finish for mirror is cognate with peglin) so it can't just be Germans going into Estonia, but some deeper Germanic influence.
My Estonian credentials are slim, but I am the proud holder of a Certificate in Elementary Estonian from a language school in Tallinn.


well, these are definitely no Estonian words: peglin, tudent, traf, tube
I don't know where you've got them from, but not from the Estonian language anyway.
peegel, tudeng, trahv, tuba would be the Estonian words corresponding to your translations.
 
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