| Title: | Proper name to zoonym as a neologisation device, 2: Israeli Hebrew names for extant and Mesozoic taxa |
| Author: | Ephraim Nissan |
| Publication: | Numele și numirea. Actele Conferinței Internaționale de Onomastică. Ediția a II-a: Onomastica din spațiul public actual, p. 854 |
| ISBN: | 978-606-543-343-4 |
| Editors: | Oliviu Felecan |
| Publisher: | Editura Mega, Editura Argonaut |
| Place: | Cluj-Napoca |
| Year: | 2013 |
| Abstract: | [Proper name to zoonym as a neologisation device, 2: Israeli Hebrew names for extant and Mesozoic taxa] Part I discussed how Abramowitsch (1866, 1872) neologised Modern Hebrew zoonyms sometimes by taking a proper name from the Hebrew Bible, and remotivating it semantically (by metanalysis), so as to make it suitable for the zoological taxon he wanted to name. In the present Part II of this study (see Table 1), we are going to discuss how this neologisation device has on occasion persisted in the formation of Israeli Hebrew zoological terminology. We consider in turn: a toponym motivating a fish name (for Lethrinus) in Israeli Hebrew; names for the rodent Meriones ‘jird’; and then Nissan’s own Israeli neologised common names for the Archaeopteryx (‘ofní, from a toponym in Joshua) and for the Avialans (‘ofna’ím); then an example from Mesozoic flying reptiles: pterosaurs named by remotivating a toponym; and then in particular the flamingo metaphor for Pterodaustro guinazui, this exemplifying naming an animal taxon by metaphor from another animal taxon. |
| Key words: | toponyms recycled as zoonyms (for the fish Lethrinus; for the rodent Meriones ‘jird’), language modernisation, Israeli Hebrew, naming an animal taxon by metaphor from another animal taxon, common names for fossils (Archaeopteryx; Avialans; Pterosaurs; Pterodaustro guinazui) |
| Language: | English |
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