Мордовские названия вооружения: сопоставление лингвистических и археологических данных
Mordovian names for weapons: comparing linguistic and archaeological data

Summary/Abstract: In the article the names of the arms complex in the Mordvin languages are analyzed. A reconstruction of arms names in Proto-Mordvin, Proto-Finno-Ugric and Proto-Uralic and an analysis of their semantic modifications in modern languages and dialects allow to compare linguistic, historical and archeological data. The Proto-Mordvin arms complex which is reconstructed from linguistic data was sufficiently rich. The influence of Turkic ethnos was considerable at that time. The borrowings from Baltic and Iranian to Proto-Finno-Volga can be found at an earlier stage. Only three names have Uralic etymology.

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