| Title: | An overview of the place name systems of two coastal areas in Estonia |
| Author: | Marit Alas |
| Publication: | Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a III-a: Conventional / unconventional in onomastics, p. 415 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-543-671-8 |
| Editors: | Oliviu Felecan |
| Publisher: | Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2015 |
| Abstract: | This article describes the place name systems of two Estonian coastal regions. There are settlement names as well as independent microtoponyms and this is characteristic of both regions. The main difference of the place name register of the Vergi peninsula in North Estonia is the earlier marginal part of agronyms, which today has fully perished. However, the percentage of hydronyms equals the percentage of settlement names. The proportion of agronyms in the Kõrkvere region is decreasing, but it still has an important role in the register in addition to settlement names. While the farm names of Kõrkvere are fixed and not subject to changes related to the owner, the farm names of Vergi are influenced by personal names and parallel names are also used in naming farms. Of the names in the Kõrkvere region 35% have been preserved since 1933 and 57% of the names on the Vergi peninsula have been preserved since 1967. Their loss is mainly caused by extralinguistic factors: for farm names the developed name tradition is also important. |
| Key words: | toponyms, name change, rural place names, socio-onomastics, place name system |
| Language: | English |
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