Loamaro ( inh, Лоамаро, Loamaruo; ,
) — the name of the inhabitants of the mountains in
Chechnya
Chechnya ( rus, Чечня́, Chechnyá, p=tɕɪtɕˈnʲa; ce, Нохчийчоь, Noxçiyçö), officially the Chechen Republic,; ce, Нохчийн Республика, Noxçiyn Respublika is a republic of Russia. It is situated in the ...
and
Ingushetia
Ingushetia (; russian: Ингуше́тия; inh, ГӀалгӏайче, Ghalghayče), officially the Republic of Ingushetia,; inh, Гӏалгӏай Мохк, Ghalghay Moxk is a republic of Russia located in the North Caucasus of Eastern Europe. ...
. Loamaro consists of ''loam'' (mountain) and the suffix -''(a)ro''. The ethnonym is literally translated from the Ingush and Chechen language as "mountaineer".
History
The first report of the ethnonym in historical documents was in 1793 by
Peter Simon Pallas.
Toponymy
According to Professor B. Alborov, the name of the village
Lamardon in the
Prigorodny District is associated with one of the ethnonyms of the
Ingush Ingush may refer to:
* Ingush language
* Ingush people
The Ingush (, inh, ГIалгIай, translit=Ghalghaj, pronounced ) per Oxford dictionary "a member of a people living mainly in Ingushetia in the central Caucasus." Ingushetia is a federa ...
who once lived there:
See also
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Ghalghaï
Ghalghaï ( inh, ГIалгIай, ) is the self-name of the Ingush people that has an ancient origin. It is most often associated with the term "ghala" (''гIала'') - tower/fortress and accordingly is translated as the people/inhabitants of tow ...
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Gligvi
Gligvi ( ka, ღლიღვი, tr) is a medieval ethnonym used in Georgians, Georgian, Russians, Russian and Western European sources in the 16th-19th centuries. The ethnonym corresponds to the self-name of the Ingush, Ghalghaï.
History
Glig ...
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Kalkans
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* {{Cite book, last=Алборов, first=Б. А., year=1979, url=https://www.studmed.ru/alborov-b-a-nekotorye-voprosy-osetinskoy-filologii-t-1-_2cd0daa3abd.html, title=Некоторые вопросы осетинской филологии, trans-title=Some questions of Ossetian philology, language=ru, location=Орджоникидзе, publisher=ИР, pages=1–315, isbn=
History of Ingushetia
Ethnonyms
Ethnonyms of the Ingush