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BAK 'BUCK' AND KECSKE 'GOAT' IN HUNGARIAN PLANT NAMES

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Racz J.
Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
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2006
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vol. 130
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issue 3
302-316
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Analytic metaphors based on animal names are frequent in the terminology of botany. The reverse case also occurs in a number of instances: animal names are derived from plant names as in kaposztalepke 'cabbage-butterfly', fapoloska 'plant bug', szolotetu 'vine louse', almalegy 'apple maggot', szilvamoly 'plum piercer', gabonamoly 'grain moth', etc. From among zoomorphic terms, the author has collected those in 'bak-' and 'kecske-,' and discusses their word history and word geography. These terms are partly internal developments, compounds, and partly entered Hungarian as loan translations. They are shape-based names, referring to the form or smell of plants or parts of plants. They include several polysemous expressions in which the relationship between individual, immediately related meanings is metaphorical. The motivations are mainly reconstructible. There is a similarity in shape between (parts of) the animals involved and the stalk, root, leaf or flower whose name is borrowed for them.
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LO 'HORSE' IN COMPOUND PLANT NAMES [I.]

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Racz J.
Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
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2005
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vol. 129
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issue 3
338-347
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Except for some fodder-plants, most compound plant names in 'lo-' have nothing to do with 'Equus caballus'; the anterior constituent 'lo-' normally refers to size. Either to the size of the whole plant, or to that of its fruit, stone, or blossom. The attribute 'lo' modifies names of plant species that are larger than others of their kind. Just like with some animal names beginning in 'lo,' where the referent is larger than the breed referred to by the posterior constituent on its own. That is, 'lo' means 'large' in such names. Examples include lotetu 'mole-cricket' (cf. tetu 'louse'), lodarazs 'hornet' (cf. darazs 'wasp'), and a few others. Large-bodied horses were taken as a measure. (Today, the same idea is more often expressed by 'mammoth' or 'elephant'.) Among botanic terms, compounds in 'lo-' occur even more frequently. Another function of the anterior constituent at hand is discrimination: it expresses that the plant or part of plant concerned is not fit for human consumption.
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BEKA 'FROG' IN PLANT NAMES

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Racz J.
Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
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2005
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vol. 129
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issue 2
186-201
EN
Popular plant names are not only important for their linguistic and botanic aspects but also as part of the cultural history of mankind. Of the various subtypes, plant names involving animal names are especially intriguing. Many Hungarian plant names involve beka 'frog' as an anterior constituent, for instance: bekabuzogany 'bur-reed', bekadunyha 'frog's blanket', bekahagyma 'frog's onion', bekakaposzta 'frog's cabbage', bekakorso 'water-parsnip', bekakosar 'frog's basket', bekalab 'frog's foot', bekalencse 'duckweed', bekaliliom 'water violet', bekarokka 'shave grass', etc. This animal name almost exclusively occurs in names of plants growing in water or in moist places. The author discusses the word history and word geography of 60 such plant names found in various botanic treatises, folklore texts and linguistic compendia, trying to explore their conceptual background and motives and to give etymological explanations.
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'LO' ('HORSE') IN COMPOUND PLANT NAMES II.

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Racz J.
Magyar Nyelvor (Hungarian Language Guardian)
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2006
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vol. 130
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issue 1
23-32
EN
Except for some fodder-plants, most compound plant names in 'lo-' have nothing to do with 'Equus caballus'; the anterior constituent 'lo-' normally refers to size: either to the size of the whole plant, or to that of its fruit, stone, or blossom. The attribute 'lo' modifies names of plant species that are larger than others of their kind. Just like with some animal names beginning in 'lo,' where the referent is larger than the breed referred to by the posterior constituent on its own. That is, 'lo' means 'large' in such names. Examples include lotetu 'mole-cricket' (cf. tetu 'louse'), lodarazs 'hornet' (cf. darazs 'wasp'), and a few others. Large-bodied horses were taken as a measure. (Today, 'mammoth' or 'elephant' more often expresses the same idea.) Among botanic terms, compounds in 'lo-' occur even more frequently. Another function of the anterior constituent at hand is discrimination: it expresses that the plant or part of plant concerned is not fit for human consumption.
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