On the Problem of the Pre-Christian Finnic Personal Names in the Toponymy of the Russian North

• Published in: Вопросы Ономастики
• Main Author: Janne Saarikivi
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2017
• Subjects: Russian North; substrate toponymy; anthroponymy; pre-Christian personal names; Finnic languages; History of Civilization; CB3-482; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Leina; karelia*; karelian; vepsian
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2017.14.3.028; https://doaj.org/article/312c59ed3e4245d1b083e0314436482a

The article addresses an understudied problem of pre-Christian Finnic personal names in the toponymy of the Russian North. In his observations, the author notes a considerable share of toponyms including such personal names recorded in the region, although in quantitative terms their number is still...