Talk:List of English words of Finnish origin

message: Well, "Nokia" is a name, not a word. Also, I have no idea how common these words are in english, even in specialist usage... The only one I have heard about before in English is "sauna", the only(?) Finnish word that has truly become an internationalism...— Preceding unsigned comment added by 213.112.113.122 (talk)  01:11, 26 January 2005 (UTC)
thread_title: Nokia

message: Why was Rapakive removed? Is the word too specialist?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.198.149.98 (talk) 00:07, 7 March 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I wouldn't say too specialist. There already is a reference to a list of words, so we don't need to make this article into a list too. One (to me the best known ;-) example out of (at the time) only a handful is fully sufficient. Besides, as you noted yourself, the text at motti is more to link to than the text at rapakivi. --Johan Magnus 17:17, 7 Mar 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Rapakive 

message: I have been told that the Finnish word "kelo" (meaning a dead standing tree without bark; in Finland usually a pine, Pinus sylvestris) is spreading into other languages. But I don't know if English-speaking biologists recognize it.(I'm a Finnish biology student so I wouldn't know.) If they do, it could perhaps be added to this article?— Preceding unsigned comment added by 85.76.88.126 (talk) 09:17, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kelo 

message: How about molotov cocktail? Sunnan 11:51, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  molotov cocktail 

message: I think this article should be merged with the one on Finnish. Just a thought, since this is so small. Maybe there it could draw some attention to itself and encourage improvement.Atomsprengja 23:49, 8 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Article is small 

message: That instrument, that's a finnish instrument with finnish name. how about that?
:It's not an English word. --Vuo 08:04, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kantele 

message: What about ahkio and pulk (< pulkka)? They're pretty common amongst trekkers. -Yupik 22:16, 16 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ahkio is from one of the Sami languages I think... --Tropylium 21:29, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Scratch that, it's not. --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 17:08, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Ahkio and pulk 

message: Might be supposed to be Proto-Ugric or something, but it's not Proto-Uralic at least. --Tropylium 21:40, 7 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I remain skeptical to the entry... 惑乱 分からん 16:52, 13 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  [xAlA] 

message: Boy is from some skandinavian language, like in Swedish "pojke". However Scandinavian "pojke" is a loan from Finnish poika. 193.65.112.51 01:06, 10 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not certain "boy" is from Swedish. (Btw, "pojke" isn't used in any other Scandinavian language.) I read it was related to German "Bube". 惑乱 分からん * \)/ (\ (< \) (2 /) /)/ * 18:20, 28 April 2007 (UTC)

text: Actually the Finnish language loaned the word for "boy" from Swedish. "Pojke" became "poika", not the other way round.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.64.20.175 (talk) 21:46, 18 August 2012 (UTC)
replies: text: Mmmnope. The direction of Finnish → Swedish is actually quite clear. Pojke has no separate etymology nor clear relativs, whereas poika (and the Estonian counterpart poeg) is related to other Uralic words such as Hungarian fiú, Erzya пиё /pijo/, Komi пи /pi/. --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 23:42, 20 August 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  Have you forgot boy? 

message: This page and its Samic counterpart are very short and will not be getting longer. I propose merging these as, say, List of English words of Finno-Permic origin (making space in case there are some Komi loans lurking somewhere ;)
(List of English words of Finno-Ugric origin may not do - the Hungarian counterpart looks adequate on its own.) --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 17:17, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Much vaster linguistic diversity does not seem to be a problem for List of English words from indigenous languages of the Americas. I am not sure what you mean by "circumstances of borrowing". --Trɔpʏliʊm • blah 19:49, 2 August 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm also opposed, as per Vuo. The cultural circumstances, as I interpret it, refer to Finnish as an official or main language of a nation-state, which is not the case for any indigenous language of the Americas. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 12:44, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: Of course, that's also the case for one or some Eskimo-Aleut languages. 惑乱 Wakuran (talk) 12:51, 8 December 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There are plenty of Sami languages spoken in Norway, Sweden and Russia. If there are loanwords from the Sami languages spoken there, why should they be merged with Finnish? Lundgren8 01:09, 29 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge