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- Title
ÜBER DIE ENTSTEHUNG UND KLASSIFIZIERUNG ESTNISCHER FISCHBEZEICHNUNGEN.
- Authors
KENDLA, MARI
- Abstract
The article addresses the possible genesis and development of the fish names used in Estonian, analysing the folk principles of name-giving vs. scientific categorization and comparing both with ichthyonym classifications used by other peoples. The current standard Estonian fish names started to be fixed in the 1920s, when the vernacular scientific terminology was being created. The selection (out of numerous variants), harmonization and systematization of the names often followed the example of other languages, esp. of German terminology. The Estonian popular (dialect) names, however, are based on local folk categories, with the main emphasis lying on natural reality, i.e. on the external characteristics of local fishes.
- Subjects
CATEGORIZATION (Psychology); ETHNOBOTANY; LANGUAGE &; languages; ESTONIANS; TERMS &; phrases; ONOMASTICS; FISH names
- Publication
Linguistica Uralica, 2014, Vol 50, Issue 1, p29
- ISSN
0868-4731
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3176/lu.2014.1.03