BOOK QUERY: Малолетко А. М. (1992) Палеотопонимика
Valeriya Lemskaya
Valeriya Lemskaya
- Малолетко А. М. Палеотопонимика. Томск: Изд-во Томского ун-та, 1992. 260 с.
- Дульзон А. П. Общее название реки у кетоязычных народов // Ученые записки Дальневосточного ин-та, 1962, вып. 5. С. 3-9.
- Шостакович В. Б. Историко-этнографическое значение названий рек Сибири. Иркутск: Б. и., 1925. 16 с.
"I have a question about some Yeniseian evidence. I understand that Dul’zon 1959a; Dul’zon 1959b; 1966–1980, Maloletko 1992 and Maloletko 2000 deal with Siberian place names with the element -kul/ -köl /-kol as evidence for Yeniseian presence, because Yeniseian kul etc. signifies 'water'. But as you know, Turkic köl is 'lake', of which a paper just published says that it was borrowed from Arin. I have no problem with that, but place names could, of course, very well be Turkic (as the IsIk Köl in Kyrgyzstan). My question is, did they look whether there is a lake where those 131 place names occur? If there is no lake but just a stream, e.g., or if there at present is no water around, this could indeed be evidence for earlier Arin presence. But if they all occur beside lakes or something similar, it is likely to have been Turkic.
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The question came up because of a very recent paper [doi: 10.1111/1467-968X.12321], whose authors propose the idea that the Xiongnu + Huns spoke the Arin language. I know the place names with -set and -jes etc. in the larger area around Minusinsk, and that is indeed a Yeniseian lexeme, but I had never heard about Arin kul."
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Валерия Лемская