Vasilyev, V. L. INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE OF 17TH CENTURY KARELIAN SETTLERS ON TOPONYMY OF NOVGOROD REGION // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2018. No 6 (175). DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2018.212


Linguistics

INFLUENCE OF LANGUAGE OF 17TH CENTURY KARELIAN SETTLERS ON TOPONYMY OF NOVGOROD REGION

Vasilyev
V. L. 		Novgorod State University
Keywords:
Karelians
assimilation
ethnos
Novgorod region
toponyms
ethnonyms
dialect vocabulary		 Summary: The first part of the article briefly examines the history of the russification of the Karelian population within the Novgorod region. The second – more informative and larger by volume – part of the article explores how the Karelian language element is reflected in the Novgorod onomastics, especially in toponymy. Today Karelian geographical names can only be found in those places of the Novgorod region, where the Karelians have existed as a separate ethnic group in the 20th century (the neighborhood of localities Valdai, Borovichi, Okulovka, Ljubytino, Demjansk, Krestcy and some villages in the middle reaches of river Msta). In such places, there are also folk legends about occurrence of Karelians and memories of their lives. Ethnonyms Karel, Korel, Koreljak is often used as a collective nicknames of inhabitants of the village and sometimes become a denominations of the people who talk unclear or say with dialectal peculiarities. The Karelians, that have settled among the Russian population of Novgorod Land, usually borrowed a Russian toponyms in finished form, so the Karelian origin names of Novgorod villages are very few. Article offers a detailed analysis of the presumably or clearly Karelian village name Костково (< Касково), Тиккулы, Сюйська, Нѣвуя, Перье. Genetically Russian names of villages too sometimes indicate the former presence of Karelians: Корельские Новики, Корельское Раменье, Пестово Корельское, etc. (with attribute Корельский,-ая,-ое ' Carelian'), Байнёво (through translation of Karel. pertti 'hut' as a Novg. dialectal байня 'bath'). The Karelian language contribution is best reflected in the Novgorod regional names of small objects of landscape near the villages (so-called “microtoponymy”). The article deals with different types of Karelian mikrotoponyms: 1) with Russian suffix -ушк-(Шилдушка, Кангушки, Ламбушка, etc.); without Russian suffixes (Шалма, Лодма, Рожма, Шакша, Бруда, etc.); with two lexical basis (Шитто-Вара, Мада-Ламба, Тамме-Ручей, Габо-Роща, etc.). Karelian mikrotoponyms are often associated with local folk legends of magical place, ancient graves, etc.



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