Meaning of Estonianize | Babel Free

Definitions

to make Estonian.

Examples

“They also complained of growing efforts to forcibly Estonianize the Russian minority, especially those living in the borderlands.”

“Even before construction of the new church in Saatse began, signature Estonian practices like versified congregational singing and riimilaulud were brought into the village in order to Estonianize religious life there, although the effectiveness of such reforms among local congregants was questionable”

“A campaign to Estonianize family names (1936) motivated (and in the case of some state employees, pressured) perhaps a third of the Estonian population to change their names, but numerous Germanic names remained.”

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