FIRST NAMES AND DIALECT NAMES OF BIRDS (Imiona a gwarowe nazwy ptaków)

• Authors: Kucharzyk Renata
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

This paper deals with the dialectal names of birds which are homophones to personal names, for example 'marcin' (corncrake (Crex crex)), 'wojtek' (stork (Ciconia ciconia)), 'jadwiska' (crested lark (Galerida cristata)). The authoress analyzes these names regarding the type of nomination. Names such as 'zofija', 'marcin and 'agata' are onomatopoeic words that reflect also folk etymology. The inhabitants of rural areas imitated the sound the birds emitted using personal names. Names such as 'wojtek', 'stas', both meaning stork (Ciconia ciconia), reflected the anthropocentric point of view. There are also bird names which have temporal motivation. It is connected with the time when the birds appear in Poland after the winter season, for example, if the stork came back near St. Gregory's day (previously on March 12th), it was named 'grzegorz'.

Keywords

EN

APPELLATIVIZATION; DIALECT NAMES OF BIRDS; FOLK ETYMOLOGY

Discipline

• PHILOLOGY_&_LINGUISTICS: PHILOLOGY & LINGUISTICS

• Publisher: Instytut Języka Polskiego Polskiej Akademii Nauk
• Journal: Onomastica
• Year: 2007
• Volume: 52
• Pages: 253-266
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Kucharzyk Renata

• Renata Kucharzyk, Instytut Jezyka Polskiego PAN, al. Mickiewicza 31, 31-120 Kraków, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

08PLAAAA054314