%0 Journal Article %T Kuidas me m istame p eva %A Asta £¿im %J M£¿etagused. H¨¹perajakiri %D 2011 %I Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum and Eesti Folkloori Instituut %X The article focuses on the notion p ev (¡®twenty-four hours, day and night¡¯) and the subdivisions of the term in the Estonian language. Attempt is made to ascertain how Estonians render meaning to p ev and what are the content-wide considerations for periodising the p ev and p ev (¡®day¡¯), and whether the reasons for periodisation indifferent languages are similar or not. In the Estonian language, the period of daylight is understood as work-time. Proceeding from this standpoint, hommik (¡®morning¡¯) as a productive section of the day is segmented in a detailed manner and time-wise lasts until lunch. The evening ( htu), on the contrary, is understood, besides time-wise notion, as the finishing of work and transfer to the rest period from any time since lunch (kell kaks j di juba htule (¡®they called it a day already at two o¡¯clock¡¯); htule saadi alles loojangu eel (¡®they finished work only before sunset¡¯). %K day and night %K lexicon %K phraseology %K real and naive worldview %K semantics of images %U http://www.folklore.ee/tagused/nr48/oim.pdf