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Finnic

NOUN
  1. one of two branches of the Finno-Ugric languages; a family of languages including Finnish and Estonian (but not Hungarian)

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  • For those who buy into Nostratic or Indo-Uralic there's a possible cognate in Uralic, *t, which is used to form participles and infinitives in Finnic, Saami, Ob-Ugrian, and Samoyedic. The PIE *to-participle in my subjective-objective model
  • Some time after the middle of the seventh century, the Bulgars, a people of Hunnic and Finnic stock, who had been driven from their habitations on the Volga as far as the Lower Danube, began to make incursions into Moesia and Thrace.
  • Turanians on the North and East, to the Tungusic, Mongolic, Tartaric, and Finnic tribes. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
  • Turanians on the North and East, to the Tungusic, Mongolic, Tartaric, and Finnic tribes. Oriental Religions and Christianity A Course of Lectures Delivered on the Ely Foundation Before the Students of Union Theological Seminary, New York, 1891
  • Slavs was greater on the right bank of the Danube, where they overwhelmed the Thraco-Roman population by weight of numbers, and denationalized the Finnic Bulgars who settled in the country in the seventh century. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
  • Still he regards the Magyar and Finnic languages as having greater mutual affinities than the others, though not to such a degree that one of these races of men can be supposed to be derived from the other. The International Magazine, Volume 2, No. 2, January, 1851
  • The ancient meaning of "ale" can be corroborated by the Baltic "alus" and Finnic "olut", both meaning simply "beer", both still apparently retaining a reflex of the lost *-θ. Never judge a book by its nom de plume
  • Scholars have therefore seen gradation in Balto-Finnic and Lapp as the result of parallel, but separate development to the gradation in Samoyed. see link. Archive 2009-03-01
  • The interesting part begins when I found out that according to the current understanding 1, a coda laryngeal was regenerated in derivativs after its initial decay into Finnic vowel length, and it has, as far as I can tell, the same outcomes as coda *ŋ. Update of my "Diachrony of Pre-IE" document
  • Eastern soil, flanked on all sides by the most widely dissimilar peoples — Orientals, Finnic-Ugrians and Slavs — some of them dangerous neighbours just beyond the border, others settled on The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
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