Oikonyms of the Arctic zone of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia)
The toponymy of each region is a special layer of vocabulary that contains words from different eras and different languages. The Yakut Arctic system of oikonyms is characterized by multilingualism. The article presents the etymology and meaning of the names of settlements of uluses and districts belonging to the Arctic zone of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia): Abysky, Allaikhovsky, Anabar national (Dolgan-Evenk), Bulunsky, Verkhnekolymsky, Verkhoyansky, Zhigan national Evenk, Momsky, Nizhnekolymsky, Oleneksky Evenk national, Srednekolymsky, Ust-Yansky and Eveno-Bytantay national. The relevance of the study is due to the need to study the oikonyms of Arctic Yakutia in a generalized and systematized form, which was not previously undertaken. This is the scientific novelty of the study. The purpose of the study is to determine the origin of the names of cities, towns and villages of the Arctic zone of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and to find out from which source languages the largest number of oikonyms were formed. During the etymological analysis and statistical processing of the names of settlements, it was determined that most of the oikonyms of the ulus of the Arctic zone of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) were formed from the words of the Yakut language. There are more than 42 percent of such geographical names.