Toponymic area of the Erzya-Mordovian village of Shilan of Samara Oblast

Abstract

Introduction: the article presents the analysis of the toponymic nomenclature of the Erzya-Mordovian village of Shilan of Krasnoyarsk District of Samara Oblast and its environs, as well as considers the geographical vocabulary of the Shilan dialect and toponymic legends that exist among the Erzya population of Shilan. Objective: to identify and analyze the toponymic nomenclature of one of the Mordovian dialects within the boundaries of the village of Shilan of Samara Oblast. Research materials: materials collected and processed by the author during the field seasons of 2017 and 2020 in the village of Shilan; the materials of field seasons of 2015–2020 in other Erzya-Mordovian villages of the Zavolzhye were used for comparative analysis. Results and novelty of the research: the result of the study was a comprehensive (lexical-semantic, comparative and etymological) analysis of toponymic vocabulary of the Erzya-Mordovian village of Shilan, geographical names of the village and its environs. As a result, 20 toponymic units of geographical terminology of the Shilan dialect of the Erzya language were introduced into scientific use. The scientific novelty of the study is that such an analysis of the toponymic space of the village of Shilan was performed for the first time; new scientific data, interesting for researchers of Mordovian toponymy, Mordovian languages and for specialists in other Finno-Ugric languages, were introduced into scientific circulation.