“Demonological” root čert- and hiisi- in Russian toponymy of the Russian North and the Republic of Karelia

• Published in: Linguistica
• Main Authors: Березович, Елена Л., Макарова, Анна A., Муллонен, Ирма И.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: Russian
• Published: Znanstvena založba Filozofske fakulte / Ljubljana University Press, Faculty of Arts 2015
• Subjects: toponymy; substrate; Russian language; Finnic languages; language contact; топонимия; субстрат; русский язык; прибалтийско-финские языки; языковые контакты; toponimija; substrat; ruščina; finski jeziki; jezikovni stik; Kamen’; Kostroma; Onega; Osnova; Pinega; Stol; White Sea; Arkhangelsk; karelian; karelsk*; Republic of Karelia; Russian North; Архангельск*; Белого моря
• Online Access: https://revije.ff.uni-lj.si/linguistica/article/view/6310; https://doi.org/10.4312/linguistica.55.1.187-205

The paper presents a comparative study of “demonological” root čert- and hiisi- in the currently used Russian toponymy of the Russian North (Arkhangelsk, Vologda regions, the surrounding areas of Yaroslavl, Kostroma regions), and the Republic of Karelia. In the toponymy of Russian origin, the most f...