The Etymology of Some Toponymes Names from «The Tale about Igor’s Troops»

Maloletko A. M.

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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 (

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Issue: 1, 2004

Series of issue: Humanities (Philology)

Rubric: Study of Germanic and Siberian Languages

Pages: 79 — 81

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