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Christmas Eve Open Thread | 86 comments (86 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)

Some say that the word 'hyvä' = good, is a corruption of 'kiva' = nice, by Russians in Finland at the beginning of the 20th century. With their holiday villas in Hanko, their hunting lodges, estates, private harbours and expensive tastes, Finland was indeed 'kiva' to the Tsarists.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Dec 24th, 2009 at 08:55:49 AM EST

Re: Hyvä Joulua n/t (none / 0)

Fascinating how these how languages are sometimes interconected.

by Fran (fran at eurotrib dot com) on Thu Dec 24th, 2009 at 09:01:57 AM EST
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Re: Hyvä Joulua n/t (none / 0)

I'm not sure what they call language genetics, but it is the same process.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Dec 24th, 2009 at 09:29:11 AM EST
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Re: Hyvä Joulua n/t (4.00 / 3)

And you can date language mutations quite accurately, since they evolve under certain 'rules'. One very exciting discovery soon to happen will be a an exact matching of the patterns of language mutation with the patterns of genetic mutation in describing the history of human migration.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Thu Dec 24th, 2009 at 09:34:07 AM EST
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