Abstract
The Words for Malt in Finnic Languages
Highlights
Finnic people have been consuming beer for at least since the first millennium, as can be inferred from the relevant words in these languages
Instead we find the word in Karelian, where linta (~ linda), Gen. linnan is the name for gruel or liquid porridge (KKS 3 : 113, 1994 : 139)
The Finnic words are based on the word form *make∂a ’sweet, tasty’, which has a borrowed root: < Germanic *smakja- (SSA 2 : 141; EES 270; A. D. Kylstra (LÄGLOS) 244)
Summary
Finnic people have been consuming beer for at least since the first millennium, as can be inferred from the relevant words in these languages. In all Finnic languages the word for beer is (historically) the same, and comes from the same root: Est. õlu, Liv. v$’l, Vot. õlud, Fin. and Kar. olut, Ingr. The root of the Finnic words is either the Germanic or Baltic loan *olut (see, e.g., Thomsen 1931 : 157—158; SKES 426; SSA 2 : 264—265; EES 629). Unlike the word for beer, the words for malt are not identical in all Finnic languages (see Ahlqvist 1866 : 113—114). The article gives an overview of the words used for malt in the Finnic languages, and analyses the development of dialect words, considering their structure, etymologies, semantics and distribution areas.
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