Mari, Merya, Muroma — History of the Ethnonyms and Reconstruction of the Substrate Toponymy Languages [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2023 The old hypothesis on the relatedness of Merya languages (today we can speak about a group of languages or dialects reconstructed on the basis of substrate toponymy of Central Russia: Merya of Rostov, Merya of Kostroma, and Merya of Murom also known as ...
Vladimir V. Napolskikh +1 more
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A Breakthrough in the Study of the Merya Problem. Review of the book: Matveyev, A. K. (2015). Substratnaia toponimiia Russkogo Severa [Substrate Toponymy of the Russian North] (Vol. 4: Toponimiia merianskogo tipa [Merya-like Toponymy]). Ekaterinburg: Ural University Press [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2016 The fourth volume of the study Substrate toponymy of the Russian North written by the outstanding Russian linguist Aleksandr Matveyev and posthumously published by Oleg Smirnov is an important contribution to solving one of the most complicated problems ...
Vladimir V. Napolskikh
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Russian Names with the Stem Maur-, Testimonies of the Old Rostov Land [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2019 The article looks to the origins of Russian proper names with the stem Maur- and specifically deals with toponyms of Maurino and the like, which are particularly prevalent in the Yaroslavl region and commonly attested in the vicinities of Kostroma ...
Nikolay M. Shvarev
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The “Mari” Hypothesis in the Study of the Toponymy of the Oka and Unzha Rivers and the Western Borders of the Old Mari Toponymic Area [PDF]
Вопросы ономастики, 2015 Referring to toponymic data, the article aims to verify the hypothesis of the western origin of the Mari people who, presumably, migrated to their present-day settlement area from the territory of Kostroma Region and the Oka River basin.
Oleg V. Smirnov
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On history of a provincial town’s urbanonymy: names of saltworks of old-time Nerekhta
Неофилология, 2020 This research is devoted to the study of historical toponyms of the town of Nerekhta, Kostroma Region. The onyms chosen for analysis are from the town’s medieval period associated with the territory’s oldest trade – salt production and saltworks – now ...
T. V. Gorlova
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Вопросы ономастикиThis is the second part of the paper published in the opening issue of the journal in 2025, it examines the phonetic and word-formation features of the most reliable linguistic data from the extinct Finno-Ugric varieties once spoken in the Historical ...
Oleg Vitalyevich Smirnov
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Вопросы ономастикиThis article substantiates the possibility of obtaining data on extinct Finno-Ugric languages of Central Russia through a formalized catalogue of substrate toponyms of Finno-Ugric origin within the historical Merya lands (HML).
Oleg Vitalyevich Smirnov
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To the Iranian Etymology of the Ethnonyms Mari, Merya, Muroma
Вопросы ономастикиThe article continues the exploration of the ethnonym *märə, previously reconstructed by the author and A. V. Savelyev, as evidenced in the self-designation of the Mari people and in the names of Merya and Muroma found in Russian chronicles.
Vladimir V. Napolskikh
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Slavic Morphosyntax is Primarily Determined by its Geographic Location and Contact Configuration. [PDF]
Scando Slav, 2021 Seržant IA.
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Вопросы ономастики, 2014 The article reviews the work by Pauli Rahkonen devoted to the research of substrate Finno-Ugric hydronymy of the Upper Volga region and adjacent territories where there lived Merya, Muroma, Meshchera and Chud — peoples mentioned in old manuscripts. The author emphasizes the contemporary level of the work using a wide range of methods reflecting the ...
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