“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: Založba Univerze v Ljubljani / University of Ljubljana Press 2015
• Subjects: toponymy; substrate; Russian language; Finnic languages; language contact; топонимия; субстрат; русский язык; прибалтийско-финские языки; языковые контакты; Kostroma; Arkhangelsk; karelian; Republic of Karelia; Russian North
• Online Access: https://journals.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...