Paleozoologická terminologie v Jungmannově Slovníku česko-německém

• Authors: Blanka Nedvědová

Title variants

EN

Paleozoological terminology in Jungmann’s Czech-German Dictionary

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The paper focuses on the Czech paleozoological terminology of Jan Svatopluk Presl in Jungmann’s Czech-German Dictionary. It deals mainly with the entries denoting extinct Mesozoic and Tertiary reptiles and mammals and the sources from which the dictionary was drawn. In this case it is primarily Ssavectvo čili rukověť soustavná k poučení vlastnímu (‘Mammals or a systematic manual for self-instruction’) and Barona Jiřího Cuviera Rozprava o převratech kůry zemní a o proměnách v živočišstvu jimi způsobených (‘A discourse on the revolutions of the surface of the globe, and the changes thereby produced in the animal kingdom by Baron Georges Cuvier’). Czech paleozoological terminology originated as a part of Presl’s translation of Cuvier’s French work, which does not translate the international designation of prehistoric animals into French. Presl does not use calques as the dominant naming convention but works with a motivation of naming based on available archaeological knowledge. Of nineteen excerpted names, thirteen are included in Jungmann’s dictionary, nine of which have the structure of an entry in an explanatory dictionary, but no German equivalent is given. It is not currently possible to identify the rationale behind the inclusion of only some of the entries in the dictionary. Except for ryboještěr ‘fish-lizard’, none of the names of extinct creatures are used as part of present-day terminology.

Keywords

CS

Česko-německý slovník Josefa Jungmanna; Jan Svatopluk Presl; Josef Jungmann; paleozoologická terminologie

EN

Jan Svatopluk Presl; Josef Jungmann; Josef Jungmann’s Czech-German Dictionary; paleozoological terminology

• Publisher: Institute of the Czech Language, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Naše řeč (Our Speech)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 107
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 75-88
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

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Blanka Nedvědová

• Ústav pro jazyk český AV ČR, v. v. i., Letenská 123/4, 118 51 Praha 1, Czech Republic