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The Etymology of Some Toponymes Names from «The Tale about Igor’s Troops» // Tomsk State Pedagogical University Bulletin. 2004. Issue 1 (38). P. 79-81

The paper is dedicated to the etymology of some hydronyms from «The Tale about Igor’s Troops». The etymology of Kayala (which at present is the Wolf-river, tributary of Samara) may be deciphered from the turkic *kyj «crookedness» and the Karaim jaly «bank», thus «Kayala» means «a crooked bank». The hydronym Samara goes back to *samar (