Vidžemės sodybų pavadinimai, suponuoti ornitonimų (paukščių pavadinimų): 1826 m. Vidžemės gubernijos kadastro duomenys
Housenames of Fauna (Bird Names) Semantics in Vidzeme: Materials of Historical (Souls) Revisions in Vidzeme Guberniya 1826

Summary/Abstract: total of 505 housenames of Vidzeme containing a bird name and mentioned in the Vidzeme Gubernya (souls) revision materials of 1826 have been analyzed in the article. Most ornitholexemes used in Vidzeme housenames are widely known and used appelatives in the modern Latvian language, for example, balodis, bezdelīga, dzenis, kaija, strazds, vārna, vanags, žagata, cīrulis, zvirbulis, vālodze, lakstīgala. A total number of Latvian lexemes in Vidzeme housenames amounts to 43 units and they refer to wild birds, whereas three Latvian lexemes refer to domestic birds, and also the general lexeme putns and the lexeme with a high degree of generalization – gailis together with compounds pur(va)gailis, mež(a)gailis, ezergailis, rudz(u)gailis and sil(a)gailis. The bird names used only in certain subdialects such as pelēda, strads and strods, žīgurs, and žēgurs have seldom been used.

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