ВОПРОСЫ ОНОМАСТИКИ | PROBLEMS OF ONOMASTICS

Alexander Vladislavovich Dmitriev
Peter the Great St Petersburg Polytechnic University; Institute for Linguistic Studies of the RAS, St Petersburg, Russia

DEANTHROPONYMIC AND DEAPPELLATIVE MODELS IN SWEDISH TOPONYMY OF 17th-CENTURY INGERMANLAND: COMPARATIVE-HISTORICAL ASPECT

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Dmitriev, A. V. (2025). Deanthroponymic and Deappelative Models in Swedish Toponymy of 17th-century Ingermanland: Comparative-Historical Aspect. Voprosy onomastiki, 22(3), 206–238. https://doi.org/10.15826/vopr_onom.2025.22.3.034

Received on 11 March 2025
Accepted on 15 June 2025

Abstract: The article examines the structural-semantic features and formation models of toponyms of Swedish origin in 17th-century Ingermanland. The study aims to identify, systematize and conduct a structural-semantic analysis of deanthroponymic and deappellative models in Swedish toponymy of Ingermanland from a comparative-historical perspective. The research is based on a comprehensive analysis of an extensive array of historical sources, including Swedish cadastral books and cartographic materials of the 17th century. The methodological toolkit includes structural-semantic, comparative-historical, etymological and cartographic methods, as well as a comparative approach to juxtaposing toponymic models of Ingermanland with similar models in Sweden. From S. Kepsu’s corpus (~ 3,300 oikonyms), 58 toponyms of Swedish origin were selected according to strict morphological, documentary, chronological and functional criteria. Special attention is paid to the analysis of western Ingermanland toponyms, which are of interest from the perspective of transferring names from other regions of the Swedish Empire. The study finds that, in contrast to Finland and Estonia, Swedish toponymy in Ingermanland was predominantly an administrative-elitist phenomenon. Swedish toponyms emerged mainly as names of noble estates and manors, reflecting the processes of social self-assertion and construction of aristocratic identity. Regional variation was observed: in western areas, derivational models based on “village → manor” predominated, while eastern areas more frequently featured deanthroponymic formations incorporating ennobling suffixes. The analysis highlights the particular function of geographical term-formants (-berg, -dal, -holm, -lund), which, in the Ingermanland context, largely lost their original topographic meanings and instead served as markers of social status. The obtained results indicate that the Swedish toponymic system of 17th-century Ingermanland, despite its relative scarcity, represents a unique cultural-historical phenomenon, reflecting complex processes of ethnocultural interaction and administrative-territorial governance in the region.

Keywords: historical toponymy; Ingermanland; Swedish toponyms; deanthroponymic toponyms; deappellative toponyms; transonymization; Swedish naming models; oikonymy; Swedish colonization

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