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Fennicism
Fennicism
English
Noun
Fennicism (uncountable)
- A word, phrase or grammatical phenomenon typical of the Finnish language, when used in another language.
- 1947. Tompuri, Elli. Voices from Finland: An Anthology of Finland's Verse and Prose in English... Sanoma: 1947, p. 7:
- The cult of Fennicism spread rapidly among the Finnish...
- 1990. Yrjö Varpio. The History of Finnish Literary Criticism. Societas Scientiarum Fennica: 1990, p. 116:
- Snellman: "the history of Finnish literature is the history of Fennicism...
- 1947. Tompuri, Elli. Voices from Finland: An Anthology of Finland's Verse and Prose in English... Sanoma: 1947, p. 7: