Improving Reliability of Onomastic Etymology (with Reference to the Southeastern Lake Onega Region)

• Published in: Вопросы Ономастики
• Main Author: Anton I. Sobolev
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2021
• Subjects: anthroponymy; ethnic history; etymology; karelia; karelian language; language contacts; onega region; place names; toponymy; veps language; vologda region; History of Civilization; CB3-482; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Onega; Shestovo; karelian; vepsian
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2021.18.3.031; https://doaj.org/article/716a930c22aa4fcaaa08d54e81efdc85

The paper addresses the problem of improving reliability of onomastic etymologies using the example of historical and modern personal and place names of southeastern Lake Onega region. The issue is pertinent, as specialists form other fields (c.f. historians and ethnologists) take little account of...