FEATURED NEOLOGISM:

The Estonian word “nöha” is a blend of two words: “köha” (meaning “cough” in English) and “nohu” (meaning “runny nose” in English). The result is a single word that describes someone experiencing both a cough and a runny nose simultaneously. This word was proposed during the Estonian National Word Contest in 2014.

Jelena Kallas is a senior lexicographer at the Institute of the Estonian Language, specializing in monolingual, bilingual, and computational lexicography. She has been an editor of learner dictionaries for Estonian as a Second Language, bilingual Estonian-Russian dictionaries, and specialized terminological dictionaries. She is involved in neology studies, focusing on the detection and registration of new words in official dictionaries. For publications see https://www.etis.ee/CV/Jelena_Kallas/eng/.