Вепсскиe обозначения печи в доме и печи в бане (линг­вогеографический и этимологический аспекты)
Appellations of the Stove in the House and the Stove in the Sauna in the Context of Veps Linguistics (Linguistic-Geographical and Etymological Aspects)

Summary/Abstract: Veps language materials are represented in a number of linguistic atlases: they are occasionally found on maps in the ”Atlas Linguarum Europae”, were included in the 3-volume ”Atlas Linguarum Fennicarum”, and now the ”Linguistic Atlas of the Veps Language” is complete. Its materials allow for a deeper insight into the formation history of the Veps dialect map, which portrays the Balto-Finnic heritage, Veps innovations, language contacts with cognate and neighbour nationalities, first of all Karelians and North Russian groups. The paper deals with the nominations for the concepts ’in-house stove’ and ’sauna stove’. Relying on the dialectal material from linguistic maps the author contemplates on the original Veps names for elements of the stove, which Veps refer to as mät, hil’mät, lezi, as well as on the names for ’sauna stove’ (kivduk / küuduk, küudug), and draws conclusions about the words denoting the sauna itself (kül’bet’, küubet’, kil’bet’). Having analyzed the distribution and etymology of the vocabulary in this lexical sphere, the author questions that the Veps sauna is a late borrowing and urges ethnographers to reconsider the Veps sauna history in favor of its greater age, specific characteristics and functionality.

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