单词 | karelian |
释义 | Kareliann.adj. A. n. a. A native or inhabitant of Karelia. ΘΚΠ the world > people > ethnicities > Lapps > [noun] > Karelians Karelian1855 1855 R. Sears Illustr. Descr. Russ. Empire iii. 94 The district of the government traversed by this canal is inhabited by a tribe of Carelians. 1882 Encycl. Brit. XIV. 307/2 The Karelians were pressing on the Eastern Lapps. 1921 Glasgow Herald 21 Nov. 10 The Karelians want..to open..peace negotiations. 1931 K. M. Stewart-Murray Conscription of a People vii. 75 The conscription of 30,000 Karelians for lumbering early in 1931. 1935 J. S. Huxley & A. C. Haddon We Europeans vii. 220 The east [of Finland is inhabited] by Karelians. 1942 K. W. Deutsch in J. A. Fishman Readings Sociol. of Lang. (1968) 600 Seven of these [smaller nations] reached some form of statehood between 1900 and 1941: Albanians, Irish, Byelo-Russians, Karelians, Moldavians—the three last-named only as ‘Union Republics’ within the federal framework of the U.S.S.R., [etc.]. 1967 E.-L. Wuorio Midsummer Lokki iii. 93 Kalle Koli, Finnish war-hero, Karelian, ex-gentleman farmer, and now an evacuee. b. The Finno-Ugric language of this people. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > languages of the world > Uralic > [noun] > Samoyedic > Finno-Ugric > Finnic > Baltic Finnic languages Livonian1790 Finnisha1845 Vepsian1877 Karelian1879 Ludian1921 Olonetsian1932 Ingrian1933 Olonets1952 1879 Encycl. Brit. VIII. 700/1 Finnic or Ugrian represented by (a) Finnish proper or Suonic, (b) Karelian. 1961 L. F. Brosnahan Sounds of Lang. viii. 177 In Finno-Ugrian it [sc. palatalisation opposition] is present in eastern dialects of Finnish and Estonian, southern Karelian, and in all the languages of this family which occur to the east. B. adj. Of or relating to Karelia, the Karelians, or their language. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > named regions of earth > Europe > Scandinavia and Iceland > [adjective] > Karelia Karelian1879 the world > people > ethnicities > Lapps > [adjective] > Karelian Karelian1920 the mind > language > languages of the world > Uralic > [adjective] > Samoyed > Finno-Ugric languages > Finnic > Baltic Finnic Votyak1770 Votic1890 Livonian1954 Karelian1967 1879 Encycl. Brit. IX. 218/2 It was Torkel Knutson who conquered and connected the Karelian Finlanders in 1293. 1920 Glasgow Herald 29 Oct. 9/2 The Karelian population in the governments of Archangel and Olonets will enjoy the right to national self-determination. 1954 Chambers's World Gazetteer 357/1 The great Finnish epic Kalevala is of Karelian origin. 1967 E.-L. Wuorio Midsummer Lokki iii. 72 The heavy Karelian accent made it difficult for Luke to understand. 1969 E. H. Pinto Treen 331 Karelian birch cigar cases..enjoyed quite a vogue in the first 30 years of this century. 1974 Sci. Amer. Sept. 101/1 After World War II some 2·7 million Sudeten Germans were transferred to Germany and 415,000 Karelian Finns were moved to Finland. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < n.adj.1855 |
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