From Chud to Merya [Review of: Rahkonen, P. (2013). South-Eastern Contact Area of Finnic Languages in the Light of Onomastics. Jyväskylä: Bookwell Oy]

• Main Author: Irma I. Mullonen
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2014
• Subjects: Finno-Ugric languages; substrate toponymy; Merya; Muroma; Meshchera; Chud; typical toponymic stems; hydronymic formants; Oka River region; Russian North; History of Civilization; CB3-482; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Bol; sami
• Online Access: https://doaj.org/article/db8c1105a9c045ecbb5414431ff7797d

The article reviews the work by Pauli Rahkonen devoted to the research of substrate Finno-Ugric hydronymy of the Upper Volga region and adjacent territories where there lived Merya, Muroma, Meshchera and Chud — peoples mentioned in old manuscripts. The author emphasizes the contemporary level of the...