Balticism

Baltic +‎ -ism

Balticism (plural Balticisms)

1. A word or other feature originating in a Baltic language that has been borrowed by another language, usually a Slavic or a Finnic one.
   • 1996, Zigmas Zinkevičius, The History of the Lithuanian Language, page 52:

     There are some old Balticisms though they are difficult to differentiate from Lithuanian.

   • 2018, Liāna Pliss; Gunita Zariņa, Agrita Puzuka, Agnese Zariņa, Baiba Lāce, Didzis Elferts, Andrey Khrunin, Svetlana Limborska, Jānis Kļoviņš, Linda Gailīte Piekuse, “Population Genetics of Latvians in the Context of Admixture between North-Eastern European Ethnic Groups”, in Proceedings of the Latvian Academy of Sciences, volume 72, number 3, →DOI, page 132:

     The influence of the Baltic languages on Finnish is evident. For instance, there are about 1.1% of Balticisms in modern Finnish.