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Etymology
From Baltic + -ism.
Noun
Balticism (plural Balticisms)
- A word or other feature originating in a Baltic language that has been borrowed by another language, usually a Slavic or a Finnic one.
1996, Zigmas Zinkevičius, The History of the Lithuanian Language, page 52:There are some old Balticisms though they are difficult to differentiate from Lithuanian.
2018, Liāna Pliss with Gunita Zariņa, Agrita Puzuka, Agnese Zariņa, Baiba Lāce, Didzis Elferts, Andrey Khrunin, Svetlana Limborska, Jānis Kļoviņš, and Linda Gailīte Piekuse, “Population Genetics of Latvians in the Context of Admixture between North-Eastern European Ethnic Groups”, in Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, volume 72, number 3, →DOI, page 132:The influence of the Baltic languages on Finnish is evident. For instance, there are about 1.1% of Balticisms in modern Finnish.
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