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  2. Haltija - Wikipedia

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    A haltija (haltia) is a spirit, gnome, or elf-like creature in Finnish mythology that guards, helps, or protects something or somebody. The word is possibly derived from the Gothic haltijar , which referred to the original settler of a homestead—although this is not the only possible etymology.

  3. Etiäinen - Wikipedia

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    In Finnish folklore, all places and things, and also human beings, have a haltija (a genius, guardian spirit) of their own. One such haltija is called etiäinen—an image, doppelgänger, or just an impression that goes ahead of a person, doing things the person in question later does. For example, people waiting for someone at home might hear ...

  4. List of German expressions in English - Wikipedia

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    A loanword is a word borrowed from a donor language and incorporated into a recipient language without translation. It is distinguished from a calque, or loan translation, where a meaning or idiom from another language is translated into existing words or roots of the host language.

  5. Baltic Finnic paganism - Wikipedia

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    The word hengetön (lit. "one without henki") can be used as a synonym for dead in the Finnish language even now. Henki share several similarities with the Norse idea of Andi which carry almost identical basic meaning. Luonto (translated as "nature") was a guardian spirit or protector. Luonto has also been referred to as the haltija of a person.

  6. Talk:Haltija - Wikipedia

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  7. List of terms used for Germans - Wikipedia

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    A First World War Canadian electoral campaign poster. Hun (or The Hun) is a term that originally refers to the nomadic Huns of the Migration Period.Beginning in World War I it became an often used pejorative seen on war posters by Western Allied powers and the basis for a criminal characterization of the Germans as barbarians with no respect for civilization and humanitarian values having ...

  8. Aal - eel; aalen - to stretch out; aalglatt - slippery; Aas - carrion/rotting carcass; aasen - to be wasteful; Aasgeier - vulture; ab - from; abarbeiten - to work off/slave away

  9. List of German abbreviations - Wikipedia

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    This list of German abbreviations includes abbreviations, acronyms and initialisms found in the German language. Because German words can be famously long, use of abbreviation is particularly common. Even the language's shortest words are often abbreviated, such as the conjunction und (and) written just as "u." This article covers standard ...

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