Peripheral Old Czech names for Owls

0489053 - ÚJČ 2019 RIV CZ eng C - Konferenční příspěvek (zahraniční konf.)
Hořejší, Michal - Voleková, Kateřina
Peripheral Old Czech names for Owls.
Etymological Research into Czech. Proceedings of the Etymological Symposium Brno 2017, 12-14 September 2017, Brno. Praha: Nakladatelství Lidové noviny, 2017 - (Janyšková, I.; Karlíková, H.; Boček, V.), s. 165-174. Studia etymologica Brunensia, 22. ISBN 978-80-7422-619-9.
[Etymological Symposium. Brno (CZ), 12.09.2017-14.09.2017]
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA15-00987S; GA MŠMT(CZ) LM2015081
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378092
Klíčová slova: ornithonyms * onomatopoeia * word formation * language contact * owls * Old Czech
Obor OECD: Linguistics

This paper focuses on the interpretation of the Old Czech peripheral ornithonyms vap, vapek a puňek. Based on an analysis of the context for the evidence, and with the help of more recent sources and an analysis of the morphological structure, several findings have been made: a) the Old Czech vap is a deverbative formed from the Croatian vapiti, which provides further proof of contact between the two languages during the Middle Ages, b) the formant -ek performs a complex function in the names of animals, as it may simultaneously carry a diminutive and an agentive meaning, while including the information that the word is the name of an animal, c) the distribution of the names of animals was loose in earlier times, with one term frequently relating to several referents, whereas one animal commonly bore several names.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0283586