Geographical Terms of Russian Origin in the Toponymy and Dialectal Vocabulary of the Karelian Area of Tver Region

• Published in: Вопросы ономастики
• Main Author: Denis V. Kuzmin
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2015
• Subjects: Karelian language; toponymy; geographical terminology; Tver region; Tver Karelians; History of Civilization; CB3-482; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Onega; karelian; karelians
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2015.1.004; https://doaj.org/article/566f9560e36942e8aadf637f912fa8de

The paper deals with Russian geographical terms in the Karelian dialects of Tver Region and is mainly based on field materials collected by the author in the 2000s. The author argues that the main corpus of geographical terms and place names of the studied area is of Karelian origin and correlates w...