Vadja Väliskohanimedest 2

The second part of the paper deals with 103 exotoponyms which were known to the Votians, including four continent names and four ocean names. They have been used to refer to places in Europe (except Estonia, Finland and Russia), Asia, Africa and America. Among the names of the continents, only JevroppÃμ- â Europeâ is of Russian origin. The attributes of the ocean names are also Finnic, with the exception of the probably Russian Indeimere- â Indian Oceanâ . Not counting the names of continents and oceans, 94 toponyms have been stored, 50 of them from Europe (53% of the total number of names), 38 from Asia (40%), 6 from Africa and 1 from America. In fact, the number of the place names mentioned in Europe is incomparable. Altogether the exotoponyms of Estonia, Finland and Russia (totally 83), the European toponyms make up three-quarters and Asian ones only more than a fifth of the 178 stored toponyms. The number of African and American toponyms is negligible in comparison with them. Countries or regions denoted by place names that in Russian contain the ending -Ð ̧Ñ [-iya], either retain it (e.g. Angl ́ija) or transform it to -ia (Germania) or i (Franttsi). Often these toponyms are formed from an ethnonym, e.g. Å emtsaa maa, Å veeda etc. More than a third of the exotoponyms (36 names, or 38%) come from a Votic person, who had sailed on warships from Kronstadt to Germany, Egypt and China. The article discusses 18 biblical names (19%)

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