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Mari, Merya, Muroma — History of the Ethnonyms and Reconstruction of the Substrate Toponymy Languages [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы 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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Substrate Toponymy of the Arkhangelsk Pomorye (Materials for an Etymological Dictionary) [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2019
The paper presents an excerpt from the upcoming etymological dictionary of substrate toponyms of Finno-Ugric origin attested in the territory of the Arkhangelsk Pomorye, a large region of northern Russia close to the White Sea coast within the modern ...
Nadezhda V. Kabinina
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Geographical terms of Finnic substrate origin in the toponymy of Eastern Obonezh’e [PDF]

open access: yesEesti ja Soome-ugri Keeleteaduse Ajakiri, 2015
The paper offers an analysis of one of the best represented groups of substrate appellative lexis fixed in the toponymy of Eastern Obonezh’e – the landscape term, which is found in all structural types of the Finnic toponymic substrate in the study area.
Ekaterina Zakharova
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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]

open access: yesВопросы 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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Mansi Substrate Toponymy on the Territory of the Former Habitation of the Mansi People [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2012
The article summarizes the results of the study of the Mansi substrate toponymy on the territory of the former habitation of the Mansi people based on the materials collected fallowing Artturi Kannisto’s famous works of the first half of the 20th century.
Oleg V. Smirnov
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Cholón and the linguistic prehistory of Northern Peru: triangulating toponymy, substrate lexis, and areal typology

open access: yesLinguistic Discovery, 2021
At the eve of Spanish conquest, Northern Peru is thought to have been home to a multitude of languages of relatively modest geographical extension, especially when compared with the widespread Quechuan and Aymaran languages.
Matthias Urban
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Toponymic Stratigraphy of the Middle Oka Region: The Results of a Comparison of Substrate Toponymy Areas and Archaeological Culture Areas [PDF]

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2014
The article explores the potential of an integrative approach to ethnohistoric reconstruction. Using both onomastic and archaeological data, the author makes an attempt to reveal the correlations between the substrate toponymy of the Middle Oka Region ...
Yuliana Yu. Gordova
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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]

open access: yesВопросы 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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The Nothern Russian Toponym Urdoma: Old and New Etymologies

open access: yesВопросы ономастики, 2021
The paper focuses on some earlier and new etymologies of the mysterious toponym Urdoma which nowadays refers to a village located on the left bank of the river Vychegda in Lensky district, Arkhangelsk region.
Nadezhda V. Kabinina   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

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