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JOHANNES AAVIK AND HIS LEXICAL ACTIVITY IN SWEDEN
(1944-1973). POSSIBILITIES TO TEACH LANGUAGE REFORM
IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL
Johannes Aavik left Estonia in 1944 and continued to innovate and amend Estonian actively
in Sweden, regardless the majority of the words were created while he was living in Estonia.
The language innovator advertised words in new wording with tireless continuity and wellfounded
self-confidence.
This thesis gives a complete overview of lexical activity of Johannes Aavik while he was
working under the newspapers called Välis-Eesti and Eesti Päevaleht.
The analysis showed that 38 words (26 stems and 12 derivatives) propogated by Aavik were
published under the rubric „Uusi sõnu“ for several times in Estonian-period and are still in
use in Estonian. The oldest words are kehutama and kehutus, from the year 1915, and the
earliest, from 1936, are stems hahm, põgu and riin. 63 words (41 stems and 22 derivatives),
all constructed at the period working in Estonia, and one neologism from Swedish period,
vüün, remained in the stage of proposal. The stem vüün was made public in Välis-Eesti on 4 th
December 1949.
The words which Johannes Aavik propagated in the rubric „Uusi sõnu“ are far from all words
he wanted to domesticate in Estonian.
The Aavik`s articles “Vigane ja õige eesti keel”, “Halb ja hea eesti keel” were published in
the newspaper “Välis-Eesti” which handled the questions of orthography and word order in a
sentence. Simultaneously explaining the problematic points of grammar, he propagated five
reproposals – stems häirima, hälin, meede, mõõnma and veenma. The stem rümu and
derivatives hälitama and hälin remained at the stage of proposal. None of the neologisms
from the Swedish period were made public.
The column “Keele alalt” in the newspaper Eesti Päevaleht has presented 57 reproposaled
words (42 stems and 15 dervatives) into nowadays Estonian, including exeptional neologism
from Swedish period, unutlik. Unfortunately 99 words (73 stems and 26 derivatives) remained
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