Gulfiya Kamilevna Hadieva,
Kazan Federal University,
18 Kremlevskaya Str., Kazan, 420008, Russia,
gul-khadieva@yandex.ru.
Ibrahim Akish,
Istanbul University,
11 Besim Ömer Paşa Str., Beyazıt-Fatih / İstanbul, 34452, Turkey,
akisibrahim33@gmail.com.
Onomastics, as a branch of linguistics, has been developing rapidly from the second half of the 20th century, due to the various researches based on the material of different languages. At the same time, toponymy, one of the principal branches of onomastics, started to develop. It studies placenames, based on etymological, historical, and geographical information. Epic poems have proper names connected with historical events. This paper studies the epic Edigey, the Tatar people’s heroic poem, and its poetic toponymy revealing both its literary and aesthetic role and its semantics. It provides a brief history of the toponyms Volga, Ural and Kazan, found in the epic poem, which have a social, historical, literary and cultural value.
Key words: the Tatar language, poetic onomastics, poetic toponymy, etymology, epic poem Edigey, Volga, Ural, Kazan.