MIS KEELT KÕNELEVAD KOHANIMED? LÄÄNEMERESOOME-BALTI KONTAKTID OJĀRS BUŠSI TOPONÜÜMIKATÖÖDES
WHAT LANGUAGE DO TOPONYMS SPEAK? FINNIC-BALTIC CONTACTS IN OJĀRS BUŠS’S TOPONYMIC WORKS

Summary/Abstract: The article presents a critical analysis of the research done by the Latvian onomastician Ojārs Bušs (1944–2017) concerning toponyms of Finnic origin on the territory of Latvia. Among others, the following topics are examined: Bušs’s assessments of the work of his predecessors in the identification and etymological analysis of Finnic toponyms, problems relating to Finnic-origin hydronyms and settlement names, phonemes and phoneme clusters as eventual indicators of the Finnic origin of toponyms, and the Latvian index of toponyms as an authentic source of Livonian and as evidence of a past Estonian settlement in Latvia.

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