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Summer 2010

The etymological data in the following reference works have been registered in the database successfully:

• Aikio, Ante 2009: The Saami loanwords in Finnish and Karelian.

Spring 2010

The etymological data in the following reference works have been registered in the database successfully:

• Lagercrantz, Eliel 1939: Lappischer Wortschatz.

Autumn 2009

The database now also includes English and German-language user interfaces.

Spring 2009

All the loan data concerning the Saami languages in the work Suomen sanojen alkuperä (SSA) [Origins of Finnish Language] have been registered in the database.

The entries beginning with the letters A through K in Lagercrantz’ dictionary have now been carefully registered in the database. Certain entries have also been registered from the second half of the dictionary; thus, over half of Lagercrantz’ dictionary has now been registered in the database.

Autumn 2008

The etymological data in the following reference works have been registered in the database successfully:

• Ante Aikio 2007: The Study of Saami Substrate Toponyms in Finland – OU 4: 159-197.
• Olthuis, Marja-Liisa 2007: Inarinsaamen lajinnimet: lintujen ja sienten kansannimitysten historiaa ja oppitekoisten uudisnimien muodostuksen metodiikkaa. – Ivalo.

Spring 2008

The etymological data in the following reference works have been registered in the database successfully:

• Saarikivi, Janne 2004: Is there Palaeo-European substratum interference in western branches of Uralic? – SUSA 90: 187-214.
• Itkonen, Erkki 1941: Ein neues lappisches Wörterbuch – FUFA 27 33-38.
• Aikio, Samuli 1995: Raaskaltion jumalat ja käyttäjät – kasvinnimien lähtökohtia saamessa. – Raito 2/1995: 20-29.
• Korhonen, Mikko 1981: Johdatus lapin kielen historiaan.
• Olthuis, M.-L. 2002: Tracing the origins of some bisyllabic words in the Saami languages beginning with h-. – StFU 2: 286-291.
• Aikio, A. 2007: Etymological nativization of loanwords. A case study of Saami and Finnish. – SaLing: 17-52.
• Koivulehto, J. 1999: Das Verhältnis des Ostseefinnischen und des Lappischen im Lichte der alten Lehnwörter: Die Substitution des fremden Wortausgangs *-CVz im Lappischen. – FinnlEst: 7-22.
• Koivulehto, J. 1992: Germanisch-lappische Lehnbeziehungen. – Sprachraum: 85-95.
• Itkonen, E. 1975: Etymologisia lisiä. – Vir 79: 168-178.
• Koivulehto, J. 1989: Etymologioinnin periaatteita: suomen keto, saamen gied'de. – Sananj 31: 39-52.
• Korhonen, M. 1977: Karjalaisten ja saamelaisten yhteydet kielentutkimuksen valossa. – JKMA 24 A: 75-82.
• Aikio, A. 2000: Suomen kauka. – Vir 104: 612-614.
• Koivulehto, J. 1988: Lapin ja itämerensuomen suhteesta. Ieur. -Tr- yhtymän korvautuminen lainoissa. – Vir 92: 26-51.
• Bergsland, K. 1988: Eteläsaamen krievvie 'porolauma'. – Vir 92: 161-163.
• Koivulehto, Jorma 2003: Frühe Kontakte zwischen Uralisch und Indogermanisch im nordwestindogermanischen Raum. – LangPreEu: 279-317.
• Bergsland, Knut 1964: Suomen soihtu lapin valossa. – Vir 68:144-147.
• Sköld, Tryggve 1980: The earliest linguistic contacts between Lapps and Scandinavians. – FUS 2: 105-116.
• Helimski, Eugen 1996: Protolappisch und Samojedisch: die vorgeschlagenen Wortgleichungen im Lichte der heutigen etymologischen Forschung. – LappUr: 51-69.
• Koivulehto, Jorma 2001: Zum frühen iranischen und indoiranischen lexikalischen Einfluss auf das Finnisch-Ugrische. – StO 94: 359-378
• Lehtiranta, Juhani 1989: Yhteissaamelainen sanasto – SUST 200
• Koponen, Eino 1996: Lappische Lehnwörter im Finnischen und Karelischen. – LappUr: 83-98

All the etymological data in Konrad Nielsen’s North Saami dictionary have now been entered in the database. Nielsen’s dictionary, covering ca. 30,000 entries, was published in Oslo, Norway between 1932 and 1962.

The complete data concerning Saami language words in the Etymological Dictionary of the Uralic Languages UEW have now been entered in the database. The dictionary was published in Wiesbaden in 1988.

Autumn 2007

Skolt and Kola Lapp dictionary data in the database

The database now includes all the data relevant to the etymological research of words concerning Skolt, Akkala, Kildin, and Ter Saami from T.I. Itkonen’s Skolt and Kola Lapp Dictionary. Itkonen’s dictionary came out in 1958 and it covers around one thousand pages.

The etymological data in the following reference works have been registered in the database successfully:

• Aikio, Ante 2001: Early Samic lexical influence on Northern Finnic – CNIFU 4:1 40-47
• Aikio, Ante 2004: An essay on substrate studies and the origin of Saami – MSNph 63: 5-34
• Itkonen, Terho 1982: Suvannosta tyveneen – FSSköld: 157-165
• Koivulehto, Jorma 1999: Varhaiset indoeurooppalaiskontaktit: aika ja paikka lainasanojen valossa – Poluilla: 207-236
• Korhonen, Olavi 2002: Samernas år, månader och veckor – KF 44: 73-89
• Larsson, Lars-Gunnar 2000: Gränser i den samiska dimman – FSReinhammar: 177-187
• Saarikivi, Janne 2001: Maastoappellatiivit proprien ja appellatiivien välisenä rajapintana: kontaktilingvistiikan ja etymologian näkökulmia – Kieli 14: 76-105
• Sköld, Tryggve 1960: Einige germanische Lehnwörter im Lappischen und Finnischen – UUÅ 1960:2
• Sköld, Tryggve 2001: Om rajder och skridfinnar – FSHallan: 414-20
• Sköld, Tryggve 2004: Finn. vika ’Fehler; Mangel; Krankheit’ – MSNph 63: 379-383

Referring to the Álgu database

Instructions for referring to the Álgu database

Summer 2007

The etymological data in the following reference works have been registered in the database successfully:

• Koivulehto, Jorma 2006: Wie alt sind die Kontakte zwischen Finnisch-Ugrisch und Balto-Slavisch? The Slavicization of the Russian North – SlHels 27: 179-196

Orthography of North Saami words

We have received feedback on the North Saami orthography used in the database. As stated in the instructions, we have written North Saami words according to what is referred to as dictionary orthography, where a set of clarifying diacritical marks are used in addition to the diacritics belonging to the present-day orthography:

• a short superscript vertical line indicates an overly long consonant nucleus (e.g. jorˈri 'wheel', usually jorri)
• a line over the vowels u, o, i and e indicates a long vowel (e.g. gōrodit 'to sew', usually gorodit)
• a dot under the vowels a, o, e and u indicates a short vowel (e.g. sáhkọhit 'impose a fine', usually sáhkohit)
• a dot under h indicates dialectal pronunciation differences (e.g. áccáḥuššat ‘mock, tease’, usually áccáhuššat)

These additional diacritics are not part of ordinary present-day orthography, nor is it necessary to use them whilst searching the database.

The etymological data in the following reference works have been registered in the database successfully:

• Koivulehto, Jorma 2007: Saamen ja suomen ’poro’ – SUST 253: 251-258
• Saarikivi, Janne 2007: Uusia vanhoja sanoja – SUST 253: 325-347

Spring 2007

The etymological data in the following reference works have been registered in the database successfully:

• Aikio, Ante 2006: New and Old Samoyed Etymologies (Part 2) – FUF 59: 9-34
• Aikio, Ante 2006: On Germanic-Saami contacts and Saami prehistory – SUSA 91: 9-55
• Koivulehto, Jorma 2002: Contact with non-Germanic Languages II: Relations to the East – HSK 22:1 583-94

November 2006

The Álgu database was opened to general public as part of the 30-year tour of the Research Institute for the Languages of Finland at the Giellagas Institute of the University of Oulu on 17 November 2006. The entries beginning with the letter L are currently covered in the most detailed manner.

The etymological data in the following reference works have been registered in the database successfully:

• Itkonen, Terho 1997: Reflections on Pre-Uralic and the "Saami-Finnic protolanguage" – FUF 54 229-66
• Koivulehto, Jorma 2001: The earliest contacts between Indo-European and Uralic speakers in the light of lexical loans – SUST 242 235-63
• Sammallahti, Pekka 2001: The Indo-European loanwords in Saami – SUST 242 397-415
• Aikio, Ante 2002: New and Old Samoyed Etymologies – FUF 57 9-57