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Bashkir place names derived from the substrate geographical terms of the Indo-Iranian origin

Liberal Arts in Russia. 2016. Vol. 5. No. 5. Pp. 517-531.
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https://doi.org/10.15643/libartrus-2016.5.9
Buharova G. H.
M. Akmullah Bashkir State Pedagogical University
3a Oktyabrskoi revolutsii St., 450000 Ufa, Republic of Bashkortostan, Russia
Email: buharova_g@mail.ru

Abstract

Local geographical terms play an important role in the formation of a toponymic system of a geographical region. Archaic vocabulary roots in the mists of time and and serves as the evidence of ancient contacts of the local population. Identification, systemic description and comprehensive analysis of toponyms contributes to linguistic and historic reseach. In this article, the substrate local geographical terminology of the Indo-Iranian origin involved in the formation of the Bashkir place names and ethnonyms is discussed. By allocating place name formants, place name bases, toponymic types, the autor attempts to identify the Indo-Iranian substratum in Bashkir geographical terminology and to define its role in formation of place names. As the study shows, substrate geographic appellatives of the Indo-Iranian origin are abundantly represented in the Bashkir toponymy. Some of them are preserved only as the part of Bashkir geographical names, for example, the Bashkir hydronyms Abdon, Avzyan, Avryuz and many others originated from a geographical appellative av/aw “water”. Some geographical terms of Indo-Iranian origin have survived in the dialects of the Bashkir language and are currently spoken by dialect speakers, e. g., beshә (a young pine), and bүzhәk (a lonely towering mountain). The basis of the Bashkir toponymic system is comprised mainly by substrate geographical terms of Indo-Iranian origin, which became toponyms during their functioning in the language.

Keywords

  • • Bashkir language
  • • Bashkortostan
  • • toponymics
  • • ethnolinguistics
  • • etymology
  • • Indo-Iranian substratum
  • • ethnic contacts
  • • ethnotoponym

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