New Look on the Toponyms Valdai and Gora-Valdai

• Published in: Вопросы Ономастики
• Main Author: Valery L. Vasilyev
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2023
• Subjects: toponyms; hydronyms; anthroponyms; balto-fennic language; old germanic; old russian language; etymology; novgorod region; leningrad region; History of Civilization; CB3-482; Philology. Linguistics; P1-1091; Gora; Murmansk; Vaara; Valda; Valday; Arkhangelsk; karelia*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2023.20.2.015; https://doaj.org/article/dcd59e355dba40df9a591c7670dbf04f

The article criticizes the traditional and widespread view on the etymology of the toponyms Valdai in the Novgorod region and Mount Valdai (Finnish Harjavalta) on the coast of the Gulf of Finland, west of St. Petersburg. A number of arguments are given that refute the opinion about a single Balto-Fe...