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The article focuses on the notion oopaev ('twenty-four hours, day and night') and the subdivisions of the term in the Estonian language. Attempt is made to ascertain how Estonians render meaning to oopaev and what are the content-wide considerations for periodising the oopaev and paev ('day'), and whether the reasons for periodisation in different languages are similar or not. In the Estonian language,...
The article observes the qualitative change of lexical units as a natural part of the language development process. The authors aspire to explicate the regularities in the changes that the meaning of phraseological expressions has undergone. This is performed on the example of the phrase läheb nagu lepase reega ‘goes as on an alder sleigh’ – an etymologically old and genuine phrase that is popularly...
The material that the article is based on is comprised of phraseologisms (in all 20,749) included in the electronic base dictionary of Estonian idiomatic expressions. The theoretical basis is the idea that in case a linguistic unit – be it a word in its literal meaning, a phrase, or a sentence – is understood metaphorically, the metaphor is related to the literal meaning on the basis of a relationship...
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