ANALYSIS OF THE CONNOTATIVE AND DENOTATIVE MEANINGS OF THE TERMS BELONGING TO THE WORD FAMILY „DOG” AS THEY ARE USED IN THE ROMANIAN PHYTONYMS
ANALYSIS OF THE CONNOTATIVE AND DENOTATIVE MEANINGS OF THE TERMS BELONGING TO THE WORD FAMILY „DOG” AS THEY ARE USED IN THE ROMANIAN PHYTONYMS

Summary/Abstract: Many of the Romanian phytonyms are directly related to the dog. Like in other folkloric creations, in our ethnobotany this mammal, although generally believed to be a faithful friend, has a majority of evil representations, portrayed as a cruel, mean living form, which you cannot trust and, therefore, associated to unworthy, useless or harmful plants. The paper brings an inventory, an interpretation and a statistic, of Romanian names of plants, which implicates the word family „dog".

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