Borrowing of Place Names in the Uralian Languages

✍ Scribed by Ritva Liisa Pitkänen, Janne Saarikivi

• Publisher: Debrecen University Press
• Year: 2007
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 226
• Series: Onomastica Uralica, 4
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The fourth volume of the series "Onomastica Uralica" is dedicated to the borrowing of toponyms in the Uralic languages.

Although the articles in this volume cover very diverse themes, there are many questions common to all of them. The problems related to verification of language contacts, substrate and borrowing, their possible differences and outcomes, methods of etymologisation of toponyms, etc., recur in several articles. Thus, similar kinds of theoretical problems have been addressed in these articles in different contexts and on the basis of different linguistic material. One fundamental observation that also emerges from the articles is that the onomastic evidence has not yet been used in the research on prehistory to the extent and in the manner it deserves. In this respect, we are living in an interesting period as far as Finno-Ugrian toponomastics are concerned, since modern methods are just beginning to be developed and utilised to their fullest extent.

✦ Table of Contents

Foreword 5
RITVA LIISA PITKÄNEN
Finnish-Swedish Contacts in Finnish Nomenclature 9
LAIMUTE BALODE & OJĀRS BUŠS
On Latvian Toponyms of Finno-Ugrian Origin 27
JANNE SAARIKIVI
On the Uralic Substrate Toponymy of Arkhangelsk Region: Problems of Research Methodology and Ethnohistorical Interpretation 45
O. A. TEUSH
Finnic Geographical Terminology in the Toponymy of Northern Russia 111
A. K. MATVEEV
Saami Substrate Toponymy in Northern Russia 129
IRMA MULLONEN
Toponym Contacts along the River Svir 141
ANTE AIKIO
The Study of Saami Substrate Toponyms in Finland 159
OLAVI KORHONEN
The Place Name Jokkmokk, Jåhkåmåhkke 199