Rather few words of Finnish origin have entered other languages, the language being a net importer of words. File links The following pages link to this file: Alchemy Ada Adventure Apartheid Abbreviation Airplane (disambiguation) Abduction Alder Anno Domini Air ABC (disambiguation) Ad hominem Afghan AD Aether Aba Anus Affinity Ai AZ Albinism Accumulator Binary Chess Computer Carbon Cow Cricket (disambiguation) Collection Convex Culture Ceramics Case Creation Crow (disambiguation... Note: This page contains IPA phonetic symbols in Unicode. ... Wiktionary is a sister project to Wikipedia intended to be a free wiki dictionary (thesaurus, lexicon therein) in every language. ...

Words loaned to English

Finnish has loaned a bare handful of words to the English language specifically. The best known example is Sauna, and many would argue that Sauna even is the only loanword in the English language that is used outside of the context of Finland, (ethnic) Finnish culture, and military tactics of the Winter War. An example from the last field is the motti-tactic. The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... A sauna, the wet version also called steam bath, is a small room or house designed as a place to experience dry or wet/dry heat sessions, or an establishment with one or more of these and auxiliary facilities, or the act of using a sauna. ... A loanword (or a borrowing) is a word taken in by one language from another. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... Winter war Conflict World War II Date November 30, 1939 - March 12, 1940 Place Finland Result pyrrhic Soviet victory The Winter War (also known as the Soviet-Finnish War or the Russo-Finnish War) broke out when the Soviet Union attacked Finland on November 30, 1939, three months after the... Motti is a Finnish military slang for an encircled enemy unit. ... Military tactics is the collective name for methods of engaging and defeating an enemy in battle. ...

Word loaning amongst Finno-Ugric and Germanic languages

Whether cognates in Finnish and other languages are borrowings between languages or are the results of common substrates is a subject of dispute amongst linguists. Some have suggested, for example, that the Germanic languages evolved from a Indo-European language imposed on a Finnic substrate. Cognates are words that have a common origin. ... In linguistics, a substratum is a language which influences another one while that second language supplants it. ... Proto-Indo-European Indo-European studies The Germanic languages form one of the branches of the Indo-European (IE) language family, spoken by the Germanic peoples who settled in northern Europe along the borders of the Roman Empire. ...

See also

• Finno-Ugric languages