Vanad karjalaste isikunimed
The article analyzes old personal names of the Karelian population. As the author demonstrates, the revealed corpus of historical Karelian names is yet very incomplete and severely understudied. This is to be due to a number of causes, including the relative scarcity of names recorded in historical...
| Published in: | Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics |
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| Format: | Article in Journal/Newspaper |
| Language: | Estonian |
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University of Tartu
2023
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| Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10138/354871 |
| Summary: | The article analyzes old personal names of the Karelian population. As the author demonstrates, the revealed corpus of historical Karelian names is yet very incomplete and severely understudied. This is to be due to a number of causes, including the relative scarcity of names recorded in historical documents, the limited number of sources, and the lack of research devoted to medieval Karelian names. Thus, this article is the author’s look into the evolution of the old given names of Karelians and a step towards their further description and study. Peer reviewed |
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