The geographic term <i>log ‘ravine’</i> in Kostroma micro-ŧoponymy
The article discusses the microtoponyms of Kostroma land derived from the geographical term log ‘ravine’ and its derivatives. We provide some information concerning their semantics as preserved in Kostroma dialects. We also define the types of such microtoponyms and give several examples of their usage as well as the words from which they were derived. The vocabulary items, both appellative and proper, are compared to the corresponding lexemes existing in other Russian dialects, which allows us to reveal their mutual areal connections. In addition, we draw reader’s attention to the relevance of the information contained in microtoponymic data, which can be used in plotting maps for the Lexical Atlas of Russian Folk Dialects, as well as in other dialectologic and toponymic investigations.