Teikin, M. S. EVENS’ COMMON AND REGIONAL ETHNONYMS: HISTORICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 1 (178). P. 102–107. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.280


Linguistics

EVENS’ COMMON AND REGIONAL ETHNONYMS: HISTORICAL AND PHILOLOGICAL OBSERVATIONS

Teikin
M. S. 		North-Eastern State University
Keywords:
common and regional ethnonyms
names and self-names
North-East of Russia
Evens
regionalisms		 Summary: The study of Northern indigenous small-numbered peoples, their languages’ peculiarities and tribal relations, names and self-names as a scientific phenomenon commenced in the first half of the 17th century, from the moment of the earliest contacts of Russian pioneers with natives. Previous ages’ researchers have differentiated various Northern peoples; unfortunately it has not been done thoroughly all the times. Thus, until 20th century contemporary Evens and Evenks were often intermixed and referred to commonly as Tunguses, which did not reflect Russian North-Eastern ethnic diversity properly. This article considers with archaic and modern Evens’ ethnonyms, both spread among all representatives of this ethnic group and regional ones, circulating on limited territories. Herein is set forth a research of Evens’ names origin and an analysis of their former titles with reasons inspired in the 20th century to change the name of one of the Northern indigenous small-numbered peoples. The article also considers with the problem of Evens’ self-names, their contest up to the middle of the previous century for being the only general ethnonym in Russian. In conclusion, the author gives a presumption why exactly the self-name Even was chosen as general one.



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