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Ethno-linguistic situation in the forest zone of eastern europe in the first centuries ad and the data of jordanes’ getica

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dc.date.accessioned 2019-01-22T20:51:23Z
dc.date.available 2019-01-22T20:51:23Z
dc.date.issued 2018
dc.identifier.issn 1994-2400
dc.identifier.uri https://dspace.kpfu.ru/xmlui/handle/net/149114
dc.description.abstract © 2018, Ural University Press. All rights reserved. The comparative analysis of folk-names lists from the Jordanes’ Getica 116 (“Hermanaric’s arctoi gentes” in author’s reconstruction, information comes from the middle 4th century AD) and early Russian chronicles points towards the independent character of both sources showcasing dynamic changes in the ethnic and linguistic map of Eastern Europe between the 4th and the 10– 11th centuries. The first three names of the Hermanaric’s list are addressed further. In Aunxis Vas must have been the predecessors of Vepsians, who lived on the south-eastern Ladoga lake shores and probably spoke a southern Lappish dialect. In Abroncas Merens are considered to have been the northernmost Merya groups along the northern bend of Volga (on the territories nowadays covered by the Rybinsk sea waters). Mordens in Miscaris are rather unlikely the direct ancestors of Mordvinians (Moksha and Erzya), but an Iranian-speaking group of Trans-Uralian origin, which had brought the Iranian name *mordi ‘murderers’ to the middle Volga in the 2nd– 3rd сenturies AD. In the 4th century they lingered on as Iranian speaking or, although already assimilated by the local population, still kept their name. The land Miscar- must be identified with the Russian Meshchera, which was not what is known today as the Meshchera depression on the left bank of the Oka river, but the region between the lower Oka and the lower Sura rivers. Several problems of substrate toponymy of the upper and middle Volga region, including possible etymologies of the studied names, are also discussed.
dc.relation.ispartofseries Voprosy Onomastiki
dc.subject Archaeology
dc.subject Early Middle Ages
dc.subject Erzya
dc.subject Ethnic history
dc.subject Jordanes’ “Getica”
dc.subject Mari
dc.subject Merya
dc.subject Meshchera
dc.subject Moksha
dc.subject Mordva
dc.subject Muroma
dc.subject Onomastics
dc.subject Vepsians
dc.subject Volga region
dc.title Ethno-linguistic situation in the forest zone of eastern europe in the first centuries ad and the data of jordanes’ getica
dc.type Article
dc.relation.ispartofseries-issue 1
dc.relation.ispartofseries-volume 15
dc.collection Публикации сотрудников КФУ
dc.relation.startpage 7
dc.source.id SCOPUS19942400-2018-15-1-SID85044094512


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    Коллекция содержит публикации сотрудников Казанского федерального (до 2010 года Казанского государственного) университета, проиндексированные в БД Scopus, начиная с 1970г.

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