Re: electronyms

On 2007-09-14 John Vertical wrote:
> The crutch is that Finnish doesn't really derive _sähkö_ from
> anywhere -
> it's a completely inanalyzable word with no secondary meanings,
> basically an
> a priori coinage with some vaig phonesthetic influences. I was
> wondering if
> any other natlang also does THAT.
>
> ...I could ask the same for any other "modern" concept, really. Modern
> Finnish is probably much more Constructed than any other extant
> standard
> language, and yet I can't really think of any other such words in
> use, so to
> find more such hits might require loosening the requirements.
Finnish is actually only a vague reflexion of its southern
neighbor in this respect. Linguist and language reformer
Johannes Aavik actually created a large number of a-priori
neologisms, some of which were successful.

<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Estonian_vocabulary> says
about 50-60 became accepted and lists the following.

veenma, roim, laip, kolp, relv, ese, süüme, mõrv, ulm,
siiras, range, sulnis, nõme, taunima, naasma, reetma,
embama; eirama, eramu, etlema, kõlar, külmik, meetmed,
meene, siirdama, teave, teismeline, teler, üllitis,
ärandama, levima, süva(muusika), taies, rula

Most of them are not total neologisms, but transmogrified loans, like
_relv_ 'weapon' < _revolver_.

The following book, which may be hard to come by outside
Swedish university libraries, but should be obtainable at
Finnish university libraries, I believe, has more info:

Author  	 Tauli, Valter, 1907-
Title 	Introduction to a theory of language planning / Valter Tauli
Publication 	Uppsala : univ., 1968
Material Information 	227 s.
Series 	Studia philologiae Scandinavicae Upsaliensia, 6

/BP