For our 7th meeting with Petri, this time we met at koskipuisto for enjoying the first days of hot weather. We sat on the grass and just talked a lot – in Portuguese – about the origin of some Finnish words, like Suomi and Tuomiokirkko. Finnish is a very interesting language for many reasons, one of them being that it is so different from the languages of neighbour countries. Even Finnish genetic is not really shared with neighbour populations.
That made for an interesting talk; we came up with our own theories for why some words are like they are, and then we started checking them out in google to see if it was close to the real reason. In google we could find too many different explanations for certain words, so unfortunately we will never know for sure how they came to be. For example, Suomi can be either related to the word “suo”, meaning “swamp” which is abundant in Finland. On the other hand, it could mean simply “ground” from the Proto-Balto-Slavic language family. It’s just one of those things no one can be sure about.
We also talked about our plans for the summer, school progress, recent happenings, etc.
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