Karelian Heritage in the Toponymy of the Southeastern Lake Onega Area

• Published in: Вопросы ономастики
• Main Author: Anton I. Sobolev
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2015
• Subjects: Russian language; Karelian language; Veps language; toponymy; placenames; historic anthroponymy; language contacts; ethnic history; lake Onega region; Karelia; History of Civilization; CB3-482; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Onega; karelian; karelians; veps language; vepsian
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2015.1.003; https://doaj.org/article/ca07f4f6d951470ca3f4eda0b524b93d

The article focuses on place names of Karelian origin on the territory of Southeastern Lake Onega region and provides linguistic and historical evidence of Karelians’ migrations to the area in question. The etymological analysis of place names made by the author supports that the Karelian language w...