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Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish [1] (Finnish: Kielitoimiston sanakirja, previously known as the New Dictionary of Modern Finnish) [2] is the most recent dictionary of the modern Finnish language. It is edited by the Institute for the Languages of Finland. The current printed edition was first published in 2006 and is based on the 2004 ...
Standard Finnish is prescribed by the Language Office of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland and is the language used in official communication. The Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish ( Nykysuomen sanakirja 1951–61), with 201,000 entries, was a prescriptive dictionary that defined official language.
Nykysuomen sanakirja (The Dictionary of Modern Finnish or The Dictionary of Contemporary Finnish) is a Finnish language dictionary published between 1951 and 1961 in six separate volumes. The dictionary was edited by the Finnish Literature Society and published by WSOY. It is the first monolingual Finnish dictionary and has over 201,000 headwords.
This is a list of dictionaries considered authoritative or complete by approximate number of total words, or headwords, included number of words in a language. [1] [2] In compiling a dictionary, a lexicographer decides whether the evidence of use is sufficient to justify an entry in the dictionary.
American Finnish, Fingliska or Fingelska is a form of the Finnish language spoken in North America. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] [ 4 ] It has been heavily influenced by the English language . American Finnish was used actively until the 1950s and after that it has been declining, and Finnish Americans have been switching to English .
The Finnish language has lent few loanwords to the English language; Finnish is rather a net importer of words from English. However the following words of Finnish origin are some examples: Widespread
Finnish dictionaries (4 P) G. Finnish given names (2 C, 2 P) ... Pages in category "Finnish language" The following 30 pages are in this category, out of 30 total.
The etymology is traced up to Proto-Uralic, the earliest known protolanguage of Finnish, [5] thus having cognates in other Uralic languages, such as húgy in Hungarian language. It is used by people in compound words, such as kusipää (pisshead, common translation of "asshole"), as very offensive insults.