ETHNIC TOPONYMS IN VOLGA REGION REPUBLICS (BASHKIR, KOMI, MARI, MORDVA, TATAR, UDMURT, CHUVASH REPUBLICS) - XL: A-NAMES OF PLACES
The article continues the inventory and interpretation of A-anlaut toponyms and appellatives in the languages of the Volga region, it gives etymology of toponyms «Аkal' vare», «Аkal' tavaikki», «Аkal' ui», «Аkal' shchuch», limnonyms «Akash kule», «Yukser / Tuksar», «Lebedinoe» and some others. It examines appellatives taken as a basis of Slavic, Turkic and Volga-Finnish ornithonyms - the names of swans all together and in particular of Whooper swans, mute swans.