Afanaseva, A. A. TOPONYMIC MODELS OF LAKE SYAMOZERO TERRITORY FOR THE NAMING OF LOWLAND // Proceedings of Petrozavodsk State University. 2019. No 3 (180). P. 101–107. DOI: 10.15393/uchz.art.2019.316


Linguistics

TOPONYMIC MODELS OF LAKE SYAMOZERO TERRITORY FOR THE NAMING OF LOWLAND

Afanaseva
A. A. 		Petrozavodsk State University
Keywords:
Karelian toponymy
models of placenames
area
Karelia
Livvi-Karelians
geographical term		 Summary: Geographical terminology (including terms of lowland relief) is the most popular semantic group of vocabulary in the formation of toponyms. The article points toponymic stems of the territory of Lake Syamozero, that represent lowland relief (Alho-, Alango-, Kurzu-, Uitto-, Lyöžy-). Also the problem of linguistic and ethno-cultural relations of the territory of Lake Syamozero at different times is solved. For this purpose, etymological origins of the terms are considered: there are both original Baltic-Finnish lexemes and borrowings of different times among them. Areas and ethno-linguistic processes are also analyzed. Each of the terms differs in its semantic shades and age. Their toponymic activity varies. It is proved that this activity is related to the character of the use of the place described by the term. The actuality and novelty of research is in the use of the areal-typological method of analysis of the toponymic material for the decision of ethno-historical task. It is proved that the territory of Lake Syamozero was connected with the Karelian Ladoga area, through the territory of which Finnish and early Russian borrowings penetrated. The source for research is based on data from the field research card of placenames of the Institute of Language, Literature and History (Karelian Research Centre of the Russian Academy of Science), and Toponymic archive of Finland. The dictionaries of the Karelian and Finnish languages, both sensible and etymological, were actively used.



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