Urmas Sutrop
Biographic Data
| ID | 148527 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Urmas Sutrop |
| GIVEN NAMES | Urmas |
| FAMILY NAME | Sutrop |
| SIGNATURE | SUTROP U |
| AFFILIATIONS | Institute of the Estonian Language |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Värvinimed ja värvid vendade Grimmide muinasjutu “Lumivalguke” variantides
The article discusses three versions of the Snow White fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm (1810, 1812, and 1857), delving into the meanings of colours and colour names occurring in them as well as changes in the names and meanings. The analysis proceeds from the structural method of fairy tale study and explores the symbolic meaning oppositions of colours and their names, such as in/out, light/dark, life/death, logical/mythological. The analysis is…
Põhivärvinimed Läänemere ümbruse keeltes
e mistame phivrvinime Brent Berlini ja Paul Kay phivrvinimede teooria (1969) traditsioonis ning mratleme seda kui phisna, mis on pshholoogiliselt esilduv, enamasti morfoloogiliselt lihtne omasna, mis kuulub samasse snaliiki (adjektiiv, noomen vi verb) kui selle domeeni prototpsed esindajad ning millel on sama grammatiline potentsiaal nagu domeeni prototpsetel esindajatel. Sna osutab ldiselt phitasandi objekti, kvaliteeti vi nhtust ning on kasutat…
The basic color terms of Mandarin Chinese
In this paper the theory of the evolution of basic color terms introduced by Berlin & Kay is applied to Mandarin Chinese. The data was collected using the fieldwork methods, color list and color-naming tasks. The rainbow order of colors does not affect the list task results. The results, i.e. basic color terms, are calculated according to the procedure in Davies & Corbett. There are nine basic color terms in Mandarin. Ranked according to the cogn…
A Wooden God of Estonians From Before 1800
Little is known of the ancient Estonian pantheon. The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia (13th century) contains references to Taarapita, the great god of Saaremaa. However, reports of the cult of Peko as the fertility god of the Seto people living in South-East of Estonia are relatively recent. Of material images only one of Peko and two of the household guardian Tnn have survived. While studying Brotze's collection in Riga, the author has discovered…
Oletatav paganlike eestlaste puust jumalakuju Oleviste raamatukogus
Little is known about the ancient Pantheon of the pagan Estonian gods. One can find the earliest written record about the Great Estonian God Taarapita from the Chronicle of Livonia from the beginning of the 13th century. In South-East Estonia the cult of a corn god Peko was alive till the beginning of 20th century. Even a wooden Peko figure has persisted. In this paper two pictures from another wooden god attributed to the pagan Estonians are pub…
Taarapita - the Great God of the Oeselians
We have read about Taarapita in the Chronicles of Henry of Livonia (Henrici Chronicon Livoniae), according to which he flew from the mountain where he was born (it is speculated that it was the Ebavere Hill in Northeast Estonia or Vaivara in the Blue Mountains) over to the Island Oesel. Local islanders screamed of joy over their Taarapita. Finally, when the whole country was Christianised, the inhabitants of Riga reportedly cast him out of the co…
Science Policy (In Estonia) Preface to the Special Issue
Institute of the Estonian LanguageEstonian science policy has been actively developed throughout the entire period of regained independence.During that time significant reorganising has taken place in four major areas: restructuring decision-making, reorganising research establishments, reorganising funding and reforming higher education.As a result of such reorganisations Estonian science environment has become more stable, including the scienti…
Eesti keele maailmapildist
Using linguistic tools we can reconstruct the ancient meanings of modern concepts and words and thereby learn something of the ancient worldview of our ancestors. This paper focuses on the terms meel `mind', hing `breath, soul', and vaim `pulsation, ghost, spirit', and on the history of these terms in Estonian and in other languages. Some Greek, Semitic, and Germanic soul-concepts and their changes are analysed. We must expunge our terms from the…
Names are more than names
Dans le present article, l'A. se penche sur la signification et l'origine du nom de famille Uexkull porte par le fondateur de la biosemiotique. L'historien estonien Jann Jung proposait une traduction de ce terme dans Chronicle of Henry of Livonia par un village. Cette signification est issue de l'etymologie populaire du nom de lieu finno-ougrien, Ykescole qui se dit Uexhull en Allemand. L'A. analyse chacun des composants de ce terme (IKES et KOLE…
UmweltWord and concept
L'A. s'interesse au mot allemand Umwelt et au concept auquel il renvoie depuis son invention en 1800. Ce concept joue un role central dans les travaux de J. von Uexkull, fondateur d'une approche semiotique de la biologie theorique du 20 e siecle. L'A. revient sur l'origine de ce mot, ses multiples emplois et les changements de sens qu'il a subi depuis deux siecles afin de reconstruire les differents concepts que ce mot a designe dans son histoire…
Taarapita - saarlaste suur jumal
Taarapita is a god known to us already from the 13th century Estonian chronicles. In different versions of the chronicle, the name is written differently: Tharapita, Tarapitha, Tharaphitam, etc. - leading to the conclusion that the name Taarapita is the most suitable for use in Estonian. The name has been interpreted as a shout "Taara, help!", or "Taara's flash". Today, Taarapita is often either misinterpreted (e.g. `owl god') or considered a min…
List Task and a Cognitive Salience Index
The list task and its two parameters (term frequency and its mean position in the lists) are discussed here. A new simple cognitive salience index, S = F /(N mP), that combines the two list task parameters is presented together with the procedure for its calculation. The cognitive salience index is normed to vary between 1 and 0. The basic terms in every domain are the most salient. The salience index of the ideal most salient term has the figure…
The Basic Colour Terms of Estonian
There are exactly 11 basic colour terms in Estonian: valge 'white', must 'black', punane 'red', kollane 'yellow', roheline 'green', sinine 'blue', pruun 'brown', hall 'grey', roosa 'pink', lilla 'purple', and oranZ 'orange'. This corresponds to the fully developed Berlin and Kay's Stage VII colour system. Estonian encodes the basic colour terms in the universal way predicted by the theory of Berlin and Kay
Meie esivanemate rahvatarkus ja maailmapilt
The first part of the article introduces a few basic cases of world view manifest in the Estonian language, the second part provides analysis of some of the most important notions of the mental Weltanschauung of our forefathers: hing [soul], vaim [spirit] and meel [mind]. The author also argues about the need to distinguish foreign influences in further textual analysis, and the significance of differentiating the separate layers of the philosoph…
List Task and a Cognitive Salience Index
The list task and its two parameters (term frequency and its mean position in the lists) are discussed here. A new simple cognitive salience index, S = F /(N mP), that combines the two list task parameters is presented together with the procedure for its calculation. The cognitive salience index is normed to vary between 1 and 0. The basic terms in every domain are the most salient. The salience index of the ideal most salient term has the figure…
Taarapita - saarlaste suur jumal
Taarapita is a god known to us already from the 13th century Estonian chronicles. In different versions of the chronicle, the name is written differently: Tharapita, Tarapitha, Tharaphitam, etc. - leading to the conclusion that the name Taarapita is the most suitable for use in Estonian. The name has been interpreted as a shout "Taara, help!", or "Taara's flash". Today, Taarapita is often either misinterpreted (e.g. `owl god') or considered a min…
Meie esivanemate rahvatarkus ja maailmapilt
The first part of the article introduces a few basic cases of world view manifest in the Estonian language, the second part provides analysis of some of the most important notions of the mental Weltanschauung of our forefathers: hing [soul], vaim [spirit] and meel [mind]. The author also argues about the need to distinguish foreign influences in further textual analysis, and the significance of differentiating the separate layers of the philosoph…
The Basic Colour Terms of Estonian
There are exactly 11 basic colour terms in Estonian: valge 'white', must 'black', punane 'red', kollane 'yellow', roheline 'green', sinine 'blue', pruun 'brown', hall 'grey', roosa 'pink', lilla 'purple', and oranZ 'orange'. This corresponds to the fully developed Berlin and Kay's Stage VII colour system. Estonian encodes the basic colour terms in the universal way predicted by the theory of Berlin and Kay
UmweltWord and concept
L'A. s'interesse au mot allemand Umwelt et au concept auquel il renvoie depuis son invention en 1800. Ce concept joue un role central dans les travaux de J. von Uexkull, fondateur d'une approche semiotique de la biologie theorique du 20 e siecle. L'A. revient sur l'origine de ce mot, ses multiples emplois et les changements de sens qu'il a subi depuis deux siecles afin de reconstruire les differents concepts que ce mot a designe dans son histoire…
Taarapita - saarlaste suur jumal
Taarapita is a god known to us already from the 13th century Estonian chronicles. In different versions of the chronicle, the name is written differently: Tharapita, Tarapitha, Tharaphitam, etc. - leading to the conclusion that the name Taarapita is the most suitable for use in Estonian. The name has been interpreted as a shout "Taara, help!", or "Taara's flash". Today, Taarapita is often either misinterpreted (e.g. `owl god') or considered a min…
List Task and a Cognitive Salience Index
The list task and its two parameters (term frequency and its mean position in the lists) are discussed here. A new simple cognitive salience index, S = F /(N mP), that combines the two list task parameters is presented together with the procedure for its calculation. The cognitive salience index is normed to vary between 1 and 0. The basic terms in every domain are the most salient. The salience index of the ideal most salient term has the figure…
Science Policy (In Estonia) Preface to the Special Issue
Institute of the Estonian LanguageEstonian science policy has been actively developed throughout the entire period of regained independence.During that time significant reorganising has taken place in four major areas: restructuring decision-making, reorganising research establishments, reorganising funding and reforming higher education.As a result of such reorganisations Estonian science environment has become more stable, including the scienti…
Eesti keele maailmapildist
Using linguistic tools we can reconstruct the ancient meanings of modern concepts and words and thereby learn something of the ancient worldview of our ancestors. This paper focuses on the terms meel `mind', hing `breath, soul', and vaim `pulsation, ghost, spirit', and on the history of these terms in Estonian and in other languages. Some Greek, Semitic, and Germanic soul-concepts and their changes are analysed. We must expunge our terms from the…
Names are more than names
Dans le present article, l'A. se penche sur la signification et l'origine du nom de famille Uexkull porte par le fondateur de la biosemiotique. L'historien estonien Jann Jung proposait une traduction de ce terme dans Chronicle of Henry of Livonia par un village. Cette signification est issue de l'etymologie populaire du nom de lieu finno-ougrien, Ykescole qui se dit Uexhull en Allemand. L'A. analyse chacun des composants de ce terme (IKES et KOLE…
A Wooden God of Estonians From Before 1800
Little is known of the ancient Estonian pantheon. The Chronicle of Henry of Livonia (13th century) contains references to Taarapita, the great god of Saaremaa. However, reports of the cult of Peko as the fertility god of the Seto people living in South-East of Estonia are relatively recent. Of material images only one of Peko and two of the household guardian Tnn have survived. While studying Brotze's collection in Riga, the author has discovered…
Oletatav paganlike eestlaste puust jumalakuju Oleviste raamatukogus
Little is known about the ancient Pantheon of the pagan Estonian gods. One can find the earliest written record about the Great Estonian God Taarapita from the Chronicle of Livonia from the beginning of the 13th century. In South-East Estonia the cult of a corn god Peko was alive till the beginning of 20th century. Even a wooden Peko figure has persisted. In this paper two pictures from another wooden god attributed to the pagan Estonians are pub…
Taarapita - the Great God of the Oeselians
We have read about Taarapita in the Chronicles of Henry of Livonia (Henrici Chronicon Livoniae), according to which he flew from the mountain where he was born (it is speculated that it was the Ebavere Hill in Northeast Estonia or Vaivara in the Blue Mountains) over to the Island Oesel. Local islanders screamed of joy over their Taarapita. Finally, when the whole country was Christianised, the inhabitants of Riga reportedly cast him out of the co…
Põhivärvinimed Läänemere ümbruse keeltes
e mistame phivrvinime Brent Berlini ja Paul Kay phivrvinimede teooria (1969) traditsioonis ning mratleme seda kui phisna, mis on pshholoogiliselt esilduv, enamasti morfoloogiliselt lihtne omasna, mis kuulub samasse snaliiki (adjektiiv, noomen vi verb) kui selle domeeni prototpsed esindajad ning millel on sama grammatiline potentsiaal nagu domeeni prototpsetel esindajatel. Sna osutab ldiselt phitasandi objekti, kvaliteeti vi nhtust ning on kasutat…
The basic color terms of Mandarin Chinese
In this paper the theory of the evolution of basic color terms introduced by Berlin & Kay is applied to Mandarin Chinese. The data was collected using the fieldwork methods, color list and color-naming tasks. The rainbow order of colors does not affect the list task results. The results, i.e. basic color terms, are calculated according to the procedure in Davies & Corbett. There are nine basic color terms in Mandarin. Ranked according to the cogn…
Värvinimed ja värvid vendade Grimmide muinasjutu “Lumivalguke” variantides
The article discusses three versions of the Snow White fairy tale by the Brothers Grimm (1810, 1812, and 1857), delving into the meanings of colours and colour names occurring in them as well as changes in the names and meanings. The analysis proceeds from the structural method of fairy tale study and explores the symbolic meaning oppositions of colours and their names, such as in/out, light/dark, life/death, logical/mythological. The analysis is…
Philosophy (7 works) · Linguistics (5 works) · Folklore, Mythology, and Literature Studies (4 works) · Linguistics and Cultural Studies (3 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Artificial Intelligence (2 works) · Categorization, perception, and language (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Engineering (2 works)