Millega seostub sõna loojuma
Associations of the word loojuma

Summary/Abstract: Associations of the word loojumaThe setting of the sun has typically been expressed in Estonian by the phrase looja minema and after the sunset it is said that päike on loojas ‘the sun has set (lit. is set)’. Phonologically and semantically similar words exist in several related languages: Livonian lūojõ, Votic loojaa, loojoo, Ingrian luojaa ja luojas. The Estonian words looja and loojas, like their equivalents in other Finnic languages, modify verbs, performing the function of a lative or locative state adverbial respectively. Together with a verb, they express the transition of the sun (or another object) from one state to another. The nouns loojak, loojang ‘sunset’ and compound words such as loojaminek ‘the setting of the sun’ have come into use later than the adverbs, and verbs such as loojuma ‘to set’ later still.Different conjectures have been made regarding the origin of the word looja. Analysis shows that the word loe ‘northwest’ is not a plausible source, for both phonological and semantic reasons. The adverbs looja and loojas probably derive from the root looma, but not, as has been believed, from its most commonly known meaning ‘to create’ or from the occasionally used word looja ‘God’. In Finnic languages the verb looma / luoda is used in several meanings. Among other things, in dialectal language it denotes the concepts of ‘to let down; throw away, leave behind; replace etc.’, which is indeed the motive behind the sunset-denoting expression looja minema. In dialects it is also often said that the sun “goes away”, “rolls down” or similar, where other adverbs of direction are used in place of the word looja.

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