Структурирование топонимических данных в свете разработки историко-топонимического словаря Западной Ингерманландии
Analysis of Place Names for the Historical Toponymic Dictionary of West Ingermanland

Summary/Abstract: In the light of the development of the historical toponymic dictionary of West Ingermanland, Russian and Swedish sources of the 16th—17th centuries have been searched for the names of the settlements of Ingermanland, which disappeared by the early 18th century. The area under consideration is the western part of Kingisepp district, Leningrad region. The material for the study consists of 16th—17th-century Russian and Swedish scribal documents and 17th-century Swedish maps. A comparative analysis of the documents in question revealed 13 disappeared settlements. The place-names found were classified according to five territorial areas determined. Each place-name was lexicographically considered by the following components of the dictionary entry: the original place-name, its historical variants with administrative-territorial reference, ­hypothetical etymology, brief information about the local ownership of the object, variants of the name with a common root on the territory of Shelon and Votic pyatinas. As it turned out, not all place-names that have fallen out of documentary use can be unambiguously referred to a particular disappeared settlement. The reason for this is complex historical and geographical transformations that led to the emergence of doublet names for the same object, sometimes semantically completely unrelated, while some oikonyms do not always refer to one and the same settlement.

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