A New Research on Belozerye Hydronymy (Review of: Makarova, A. A. (2012). Russian Lake Names of Belozerye: Systemic and Functional Aspects (Unpublished doctoral thesis). Ekaterinburg: Ural Federal University) [PDF]
The review of A. A. Makarova’s dissertation gives a positive evaluation of the comprehensive (phonetic, semantic, structural and derivational) research of the lake hydronymy of Belozerye, the region of long and active ethnic and linguistic contacts ...
Муллонен, И. И. +1 more
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The Croatian Hydronym and Choronym Líka and its Presumed Relatives Lech, Liẽkė, etc.
The Croatian hydronym and choronym Lika is often mentioned together with the hydronym Lech (Austria, Bavaria) and with a group of Lithuanian and Latvian hydronyms and other toponyms and appellatives. They are all presumed to be based on the PIE root *(h1)
Harald Bichlmeier
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Once Again on the Origin of the River Name Vyatka and the City Name Vyatka (Modern Kirov) [PDF]
The article reports the results of a comprehensive historical and linguistic investigation into the history of the place name Vyatka, associated with both a river and a contiguous city in the Kama River area in Russia (modern Kirov Oblast).
Valery L. Vasilyev
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Toponymy of Russian Mining Settlements of the Komi Republic in the 21st Century Records
The paper deals with the toponymic material recorded in 2008–2019 from the Russian population of the mining settlements of Nyvchim, Kazhym, and Nychpas.
Yulia A. Krasheninnikova +1 more
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Cretan Hydronyms Derived from Settlement Names [PDF]
The paper discusses 284 Cretan river names, presumably derived from settlement names. This group of hydronyms represents 6.1% among all the modern hydronyms of the island (4 666 names collected by the author from written sources and, at a lesser degree ...
Elwira Kaczyńska
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On Hydronymic Catalogues Composition Principles: Cataloguing of Hydronyms of the Msta River Basin [PDF]
The article presents a brief review of the few Russian hydronymic catalogues (relating to the basins of the Don, Oka, Svir and other rivers) based on the hydrographic principle.
Valery L. Vasilyev, Nina N. Vikhrova
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Hydronymic Evidence of Migrations in Western Slovakia [PDF]
The article deals with problems of ethnocultural reconstruction, focusing on the hydronymy of West Slovakia, the area neighbouring with Austria, Hungary and Czech Republic. The author distinguishes several hydronymic strata pertaining to different ethnic
Mária Beláková
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To the Etymology of Names in And(om)- in the Toponyms of the European North of Russia
The paper discusses a number of issues related to the origin of the stem And(om) that occurs in substrate toponyms of the European North of Russia, e.g. Andozero, Andoma, Andomozero, Andoba (historical Andoma), etc.
Nadezhda V. Kabinina
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On the Origin of Russian-Language Hydronyms of the Shchugor River Basin [PDF]
The article discusses the history of the hydronyms Shchugor, Patok, Glubnik, Torgovaya, Volokovka, Pyatidyrka, and Semidyrka, i.e. the names of the Shchugor River and its several tributaries of the first and second orders.
Andrey G. Belyaev, Elena I. Shubnitsina
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The Mystery of the River Name Mezen [PDF]
The article focuses on the origins of the name Mezen that refers to a large river in the north of the European part of Russia. The author critically reviews the earlier etymologies, in which the hydronym has been interpreted on the basis of the Ugric and
Nadezhda V. Kabinina
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