Sprachgeschichtliche und -typologische Fragen der Movierung unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des alten Südestnischen
Language-historical and typological questions of the Moving with special regard to the old South Estonian

Summary/Abstract: The author tries to diachronically describe the dynamics of the Estonian language that can be attributed to motion in the East European and European context. The article seeks an answer to the question whether the absence of the category of the grammatical genus in Estonian Allowing the Movement as a means of vocabulary extension. On the basis of the grammar of Johannes Gutslaff it is proved that in Estonian the word formation suffix -ikauch served for education of the feminine. The proven ancient gender marker (more precisely: the mark of the sex) in Baltic Finish is connected with the marking of the stereotypically small size of the woman. The sex-neutralization of the suffix started in the eight-eenth century. The reason for this was a complicated sequence of changes of meaning of certain lex-emes.

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