出版社：Estonian Literary Museum and Estonian Folklore Institute
摘要：The earliest entries of the kõnekäänud ‘(proverbial) phrase’ files in the Estonian Folklore Archives presumably originate in the 17th and 18th century; most of the phrases have been collected in the late 19th and 20th century. The material has been copied from the Estonian Folklore Archives as well as the manuscript catalogues of the Estonian Cultural History Archives, the dialectal archives of the Estonian Language Institute and the Estonian Language Society, and also from various printed publications. In 1994 the estimated number of archival index cards was ca 200,000 (Baran 1999: 2; Õim 1997: 3), whereas presently the number remains somewhere below 150,000, and the total number of expressions is about 160,000.
