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- Title
PREDECESSORS OF CONTEMPORARY RUSSIAN bl IN THE TOPONYMY OF INGERMANLAND.
- Authors
Kirsanov, Nikolai
- Abstract
On the ground of certain conservatism in Firmic adaptations of imported Slavic place-names some reconstructions are presented of possible Slavic place-names of Ingermanland dated back to times before the first Slavic palatalization of velars (Finnish Kirnu < Church Slav *kir(s)nu 'black': cf Fninish musta 'black' > Russian MyCTOϐ and Russian KopHoϐo/KëpHoϐo; cf Finnish Kuippina vs Russian KuneHb < *KblneHb < Church Slav **Kuipini, where palatalization was impossible before a back vowel) and before the rise of bl from ū through ui.
- Subjects
INGRIA (Russia); RUSSIA; CONSERVATISM &; literature; TOPONYMY; LEXICOGRAPHY; FINNIC languages; PROTO-Slavic language
- Publication
Linguistica Uralica, 2007, Vol 43, Issue 3, p211
- ISSN
0868-4731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3176/lu.2007.3.05