A unique work on the origins of bird names and the European lexicon.
Gathering the names of 450 species of birds, in forty-two Indo-European languages and their dialects, is a task some would have thought impossible. Yet this book lists some 100,000 names collected from ornithological publications and dialect lexicons. It will of course be of interest to curious ornithologists, but is above all intended for linguists. In addition to bird names, some 30,000 names of objects and colors are collected in the form of filiations divided into categories of chromatic, morphological, acoustic or kinetic origin. It’s the most complete collection of color names ever assembled. From the Atlantic to India, dialect names are cited with locality indications. This work will provide inexhaustible resources for researchers in all the sciences concerned with knowledge of languages and their interrelationships, and the long history of links between man and nature.
And more:
The Latin American names of 1,700 bird species in Spanish, Portuguese and Amerindian.
The names of 1100 bird species from French-speaking overseas countries.
Over 2000 European and extra-European names of bats.
Modern, Maltese, Gypsy.
Ancient languages: Ancient Greek, Classical Latin, Medieval Latin, Prussian, Sanskrit, Ancient Hebrew, Akkadian&.
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Keywords:
Lexicology, dialectology, etymology; ornithology: Bird names from Europe and the Middle East. Indo-European languages. Ancient languages. Modern languages: Celtic, Romance, Germanic, Scandinavian, Slavic, Greek, Albanian, Iranian, Basque, Caucasian, Chamito-Semitic. Latin American and Amerindian languages.
Languages cited: Irish Gaelic, Scottish Gaelic, Cymry, Breton, English, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish, Dutch, German, French, Provençal, Catalan, Basque, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Rhaeto-Romance, Romanian, Albanian, Neo-Greek, Serbo-Croatian, Czech, Slovak, Polish, Ukrainian, Russian, Byelorussian, Lithuanian, Lette, Armenian, Iranian, Kurdish, Georgian, Hungarian, Turkish, Arabic, Modern Hebrew, Maltese, Gypsy.
Ancient languages: Ancient Greek, Classical Latin, Medieval Latin, Prussian, Sanskrit, Ancient Hebrew, Akkadian&.
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