Dundaga parish oronyms (hill names) of Livonian origin in Juris Plāķis’ Latvian toponym publication
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عنوان ژورنال: Eesti ja soome-ugri keeleteaduse ajakiri. Journal of Estonian and Finno-Ugric Linguistics
سال: 2014
ISSN: 2228-1339,1736-8987
DOI: 10.12697/jeful.2014.5.1.13