ВОПРОСЫ ОНОМАСТИКИ | PROBLEMS OF ONOMASTICS

Valery L. Vasilyev
Yaroslav-the-Wise Novgorod State University
Veliky Novgorod, Russia

Hydronyms Ending in -zha (-жа) in the Russian North-West (Structure, Etymology, Microsystemic Ties, Linguo-Ethnic Attribution)

Voprosy onomastiki (Problems of Onomastics), 2013, Issue 1 (14), pp 7–30 (in Russian)

Abstract: The article deals with river and lake-names ending in -zha in the Russian North-West, notably on the historical territories of Novgorod, Pskov and Toropets, analyzing the abovementioned hydronyms in the structural, derivational, microsystemic, semantic, etymological and lingo-ethnic aspects. The study of the names in question soundly reveals the basic ancient strata of the region: Slavic, Baltic and Finno-Ugric.

Key words: Baltic languages, Russian language, Slavic languages, Finno-Ugric languages, Russian North-West, hydronymy, river and lake-names ending in -zha, etymology, substrate hydronymy

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