Putniņa Maiga (1911-2001), linguist
Linguist Putniņa Maiga was born on April 28, 1911 in the former Sinole Clay School in Valka district (1.5 km from Mālmuiža towards Velēni), in the family of the caretaker Otto Krievāns.
She got her first education at her father's school in Māli. In 1929 he graduated from Cesvaine Secondary School. Entering the penultimate class of Jelgava State Teachers' Institute, in 1931 he acquired the rights of a teacher. In 1933 he began his studies at the Faculty of Philology and Philosophy of the University of Latvia in the Baltic Department, which he completed very successfully in May 1938 with a master's degree. She worked as a Latvian language teacher with a few breaks in Viļaka, Smiltene and Limbaži secondary schools, Aumeisteri and Rūja eight-year schools until her retirement in 1972.
Following the example of Jacob Apsīši in the study of Lizum's dialect, he decided to do something for his native Sinole dialect. Started in 1942. with answers about Sinoli according to Velta Rūķe 's "Program Description". He later started collecting Sinole dialect material for the intended Sinole dialect dictionary. The work ceased in 1944. After the war, he took part in linguists' expeditions organized by the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences in Limbaži, Valka and Daugavpils districts, resuming collecting dialect materials about Sinoli, who was intensely retired after retirement.
The book "Description of Sinole's dialect" was published in 1983; in the collection "Texts of the Farmers' Dialect" 1983 Sinole dialect records have been published. For the publishing house "Science" 1991 "Dictionary of Sinole Comparisons" (co-author A.Timuška) was submitted.
Collected sheet materials: 54 Sinole dialects; Sinole dial file in 69 boxes with more than 60,000 large format cards; news for the “Atlas of Latvian Dialects” planned by the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences about Limbaži, Katvari, Ozoli, Pociems, Sinoli, Bilsku, Lizuma, Ranku, Smiltene, Višķi; 1942 - 1944 answers in Sinole's dialect about plow, harrow, threshing block, roller, rake, hand mill with drawings for the Culture Selection designed at that time; registered almost 4,000 place names in Sinole, Limbaži and Valka districts; the planned European Language Atlas provides answers to Sinoli about all the surveys sent by the Institute of Language and Literature of the Academy of Sciences; borrowings from the Finno - Ugric languages and Germanisms in Sinole have been clarified.
She has also written poetry, which she has arranged in a collection. Aliases: a couple of poems in the 1930s in Zeltene Maiga Gaigala, usually Maiga (also Ilze) Bērzkalna. The first poem "Egles" in 1933. "Golden" with the real name.
The list of information source can be found here .