Loanwords and native words in the Nordic languages database (c.1550–c. 1900)
SND-ID: 2024-396. Version: 1. DOI: https://doi.org/10.57804/gyz8-ns75
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Matteo Tarsi
- Uppsala University, Department of Scandinavian Languages
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Excelfile that contains data on loanwords and native words in the Nordic languages during the period 1550 to 1900.
This data stems from a two-years research about loanwords and native words in the Nordic languages (Swedish, Danish, Icelandic) in the period c. 1550-c. 1900. The data gathering focused on a set of meanings from different semantic fields in the quest for loanwords and native words throughout time.
The semantic fields from which data was sampled are:
Astrology
Astronomy
Buildings and Architectural Elements
Chemical Elements
Clothes and Accessories
This data stems from a two-years research about loanwords and native words in the Nordic languages (Swedish, Danish, Icelandic) in the period c. 1550-c. 1900. The data gathering focused on a set of meanings from different semantic fields in the quest for loanwords and native words throughout time.
The semantic fields from which data was sampled are:
Astrology
Astronomy
Buildings and Architectural Elements
Chemical Elements
Clothes and Accessories
Food and Beverages
Grammatical Terminology
Law
Learning
Materials, Minerals, Textiles and Fabrics
Mathematics and Geometry
Medicine
Musical Instruments
Natural Products and Plants
People and Honorific and Professional Titles
Religious Terminology
Statal Organization
The dataset was originally published in DiVA and moved to SND in 2024. Show less..
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Specific languages (Standard för svensk indelning av forskningsämnen 2011)
Keywords
Loanwords, Purism, Scandinavian languages, Native synonyms, Nordic languages
Tarsi, M. (2023). Naming the elements in the Nordic languages (Swedish, Danish, Icelandic) until 1945. In Från Island till Sverige och tillbaka (pp. 137–154). https://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-503549
URN:
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-503549
SwePub:
oai:DiVA.org:uu-503549
Tarsi, M. (2023). Linguistic terminology in Swedish and Danish with comparison of Icelandic. In NOWELE (Vol. 76, Issue 1, pp. 23–59). https://doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00073.tar
URN:
urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-505807
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.1075/nowele.00073.tar
SwePub:
oai:DiVA.org:uu-505807
