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Asta Õim. The Estonian Way to Worry One's Worries |
2007, nr. 3 |
The Estonian word mure 'sorrow; worry,
trouble; anxiety; care, concern' can be regarded as a two-dimensional
notion, designating an emotional as well as a characteristic quality.
The characteristics of mure as an emotion word tend to
pass on to its non-emotional meaning, lending it a negative aspect.
The word signifies one of those emotions that can control as well
as be controlled, i.e. it may occur as an active subject, a manipulator,
or as an object to be manipulated.
The available linguistic data (the number of mure-derivatives,
the wide and diverse lexical connotations of the word) suggest
that in the cognitive memory of Estonians sorrow, worry, anxiety
and concern may occupy a rather important position.
Keywords: Estonian, emotional words,
lexical semantics, metaphor, metonymy.
Asta Õim (b. 1943), PhD, Estonian Literary
museum, senior researcher
asta@voore.pri.ee
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