Hydronyms and hydrogeographical terms in the oikonymy of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)

The article is devoted to the analysis of names of settlements of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), formed from hydronyms and hydrogeographic terms. Russian Russian linguists are interested in such a stratum of the Russian toponymic system as the regional oikonymicon, which includes and has been consolidated as proper names, in addition to Russian proper names, the names of water bodies and hydrogeographic terms in the languages of the peoples living in the territory (Yakut, Even, Evenki, Yukaghir). In this regard, the aim of the work was to determine the role of hydronyms and hydrogeographic terms in the formation of names of settlements in the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia), as well as the names of administrative units – districts and uluses (of which 73.5% of the names were derived from hydronyms). As a result of the conducted research, it was determined that the names of almost all major rivers of Yakutia, as well as lakes, are used in the formation of oikonyms through transonymization, which is associated with the economic and cultural activities of the peoples living in the republic. Using a continuous sampling method from the "Dictionary of Toponyms of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): settlements, villages, uluses, districts" it was revealed that out of 694 oikonyms, 56 names contain a direct reference to the geographical term "river", "lake", "stream", "swamp", etc. in various languages (Russian, Yakut, Even, Evenki, Yukaghir). It has been established that the most frequent among the oikonyms of the region are those formed from the appellatives kuel (yak. kuol "lake"), "river" (from yak. ureh), Topological bases are also involved in the formation of names of settlements–allegorical names of water bodies (Yakut ebe ’grandmother', Yukaghir abuchie 'grandmother, grandmother'), which may indicate the cultural traditions of the peoples.