Of the same breath – Indigenous animal and place names

Lucie A. Möller

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Of the Same Breath opens the door to a better understanding of why and how the animals and places of southern Africa have been given the names they have today. The vast reaches of the information provided in this book have been drawn together to create a veritable cornucopia of answers to the old question of how names originated. In this linguistically thought-provoking book, readers will be guided through the origins of animal names and toponyms, from the coastline of South Africa to the northern border of Namibia, and from the mighty elephant to the humble grasshopper.

Sujets

• Littérature Sud-Africaine
• Littérature sud-africaine
• Khoïkhoï
• San
• Insects
• Language
• Binomial nomenclature
• Toponymy
• List of animal names
• Khoikhoi
• Indigenous language
• African people
• Insect
• LANGUAGES
• African

Informations

• Publié par: UJ Press
• Date de parution: 01 octobre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781928424031
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 6 Mo

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INDIGENOUS ANIMAL AND PLACE NAMES

Lucie A. Möller

INDIGENOUS ANIMAL AND PLACE NAMES

Lucie A. Möller

Of the same breath – Indigenous animal and place names

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CONTENTS

LIST OF FIGURES ..................................................................................................................

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ABBREVIATIONS .................................................................................................................. XIV

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS ..................................................................................................... XV

INTRODUCTION ..................................................................................................................

PART ONE – Naming ............................................................................

CHAPTER ONE | Language treads in naming ..................................................................

1.1

1.2

1.3

1.4 1.5.

1.6

Background o e vocauary o anîma names ................................................................. 1.1.1 Eary namîng moîves and ormaîves ..................................................................... 1.1.2 he dîversîy o anguages and cuures în namîng ............................................... On e spoor o anîma and pace names .............................................................................. 1.2.1 Evouîonary processes în namîng ........................................................................... 1.2.2 Proems în comparîng onymîc ormaîves ........................................................... 1.2.3 Researc quesîons and caenges .......................................................................... Searcîng or roo eemens o namîng ................................................................................. 1.3.1 Anaysîng e eemens o namîng .......................................................................... 1.3.2 he aocaîon and recordîng o îndîgenous anîma names .................................. 1.3.3 Fîndîng namîng ormaîves ...................................................................................... 1.3.4 Tesîng e ‘sound-meanîng’ meod ...................................................................... Area o researc ....................................................................................................................... Evauaîon and presenaîon o anîma names în oponyms ............................................... 1.5.1 ïnerpreîng and evauaîng e daa ....................................................................... 1.5.2 Presenaîon o daa .................................................................................................... 1.5.3 Toponyms derîved rom anîma names .................................................................. Onomasîc and înguîsîc crîerîa .......................................................................................... 1.6.1Dîsrîuîon and cassîIcaîon o Busman anguages .......................................... 1.6.2 Dîverse înguîsîc conexs ......................................................................................... 1.6.3 Tracîng orîgîna eymoogîes ..................................................................................... 1.6.4 ïnerînguîsîc conac as key o sovîng eymoogîes ............................................ 1.6.5 Reconsrucîng orîgîna orms and ok-eymoogîca adapaîons .....................

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1.7. 1.8.

1.6.6 Unîormîy o namîng sraegîes .............................................................................. 1.6.7 Evouîonary înguîsîc and onomasîc namîng processes ................................... 1.6.8 Esaîsmen o a paeo-înguîsîc vocauary ..................................................... Topograpîca verîIcaîon: Pace names în conex ............................................................. ïndîgenous names o anîmas în zooogîca axonomy ........................................................

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PART TWO – Mammal names ......................................................... 69

CHAPTER TWO | Carnivores, teir names and toponyms derived rom tem ................

2.1.

2.2

2.3

2.4

2.5

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he ca amîy – Feîdae ........................................................................................................... 71 2.1.1 he îon ......................................................................................................................... 71 2.1.2 he ceea .................................................................................................................. 76 2.1.3 he eopard .................................................................................................................. 85 2.1.4 he caraca ................................................................................................................... 90 2.1.5 he Arîcan wîd ca ................................................................................................... 91 2.1.6 he serva ca ............................................................................................................... 93 2.1.7 he sma spoed ca .................................................................................................. 94 he amîy Hyaenîdae: yenas, aardwo and oer ‘woves’ ............................................... 95 2.2.1 he rown yena ......................................................................................................... 95 2.2.2 he spoed yena ....................................................................................................... 96 2.2.3 he aardwo ................................................................................................................ 109 he dog amîy, Canîdae: wîd dogs, jackas and oxes ....................................................... 110 2.3.1 he wîd dog ................................................................................................................ 110 2.3.2 he jackas .................................................................................................................... 114 2.3.3 Foxes or ‘smaer jackas’ ............................................................................................ 121 Smaer mammas, amîy Vîverrîdae, Museîdae .............................................................. 124 2.4.1 Meerkas ....................................................................................................................... 124 2.4.2 he yeow or usy-aîed mongoose ...................................................................... 127 2.4.3 he genes, muskejaa- or muskejaaka ................................................................ 128 2.4.4 Mongoose amîy ........................................................................................................ 129 2.4.5 Honey adger or rae ................................................................................................. 132 Bas and mîce ............................................................................................................................ 133

CHAPTER THREE | Primates: baboons and vervet monkeys ............................................ 137

3.1 3.2

Cacma or savanna aoon .................................................................................................... 137 he verve monkeys .................................................................................................................. 143

CHAPTER FOUR | he ooed mammas: non-ruminants ............................................... 145

4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4

Rînoceros: ack rîno and wîe rîno .............................................................................. 145 he amîy Hîppopoamîdae,H. ampîbîus.......................................................................... 153 he Arîcan eepan ................................................................................................................ 155 he swîne amîy, Suîdae and oer porcîne mammas ....................................................... 159 4.4.1 he anear .................................................................................................................. 159 4.4.2 he scay aneaer or pangoîn ................................................................................... 163 4.4.3 he uspîg .................................................................................................................. 166 4.4.4 he warog ................................................................................................................. 168 4.4.5 he porcupîne ............................................................................................................. 169

CHAPTER FIVE | Hooed mammas: bovines, girafe and anteope ................................ 174

5.1

5.2

5.3

5.4

Su-amîy Bovînae: cae and ufao .................................................................................. 174 5.1.1 Cae, us and cows ................................................................................................ 174 5.1.2 Bufao .......................................................................................................................... 177 he gîrafe, amîy Gîraidae .................................................................................................. 180 5.2.1 he gîrafe .................................................................................................................... 181 he aneope amîy and oer rumînans încudîng suamîîes and rîes, e.g. Neoragînî, Reduncînî, Hîpporagînî and Trageapînî ............................................... 186 5.3.1 he eand ...................................................................................................................... 186 5.3.2 he greaer kudu ........................................................................................................ 190 5.3.3 he gemsok ............................................................................................................... 192 5.3.4 he sae aneope ....................................................................................................... 195 5.3.5 he ecwe .................................................................................................................. 196 5.3.6 he waeruck ............................................................................................................. 198 5.3.7 he usuck .............................................................................................................. 200 5.3.8 Reeduck ...................................................................................................................... 200 5.3.9 he sprînguck ............................................................................................................ 201 5.3.10 he împaa ................................................................................................................... 204 he smaer and dwar aneope .............................................................................................. 206 5.4.1 he seenok ................................................................................................................ 206 5.4.2 he orîî ....................................................................................................................... 210 5.4.3 he kîpsprînger .......................................................................................................... 212 5.4.4 he duîker .................................................................................................................... 213

CHAPTER SIX | he Equidae or orse amiy .................................................................... 216

6.1 6.2

Zeras and kwaggas .................................................................................................................. 216 Wîd asses and ‘wîd orses’ .................................................................................................... 221

CHAPTER SEVEN | he Aceapini tribe .......................................................................... 228

7.1 7.2.

he wîdeeess ........................................................................................................................ 228 Oer memers o e Aceapînî rîe ............................................................................... 233 7.2.1 he esok .................................................................................................................. 234 7.2.2 he oneok ............................................................................................................... 235 7.2.3 he areees ............................................................................................................. 237 7.2.4 he sessee or sassay ............................................................................................... 240

PART THREE – Bird names ................................................................. 241

CHAPTER EIGHT | Bird names as relected in toponyms ................................................. 244

8.1 8.2 8.3 8.4 8.5 8.6 8.7 8.8 8.9 8.10 8.11 8.12 8.13 8.14 8.15

Osrîc ........................................................................................................................................ 244 Vuures ..................................................................................................................................... 247 Ows and nîg awks .............................................................................................................. 249 Bue crane .................................................................................................................................. 255 he amerkop ........................................................................................................................... 256 Busards, korî usards or gompous ....................................................................................... 257 Knorane or korane ............................................................................................................... 259 Ground ornî, ‘romvoë’ .................................................................................................. 261 Crows ........................................................................................................................................ 263 Guînea ow ............................................................................................................................... 266 Parrîdges and peasans ......................................................................................................... 267 he quaî .................................................................................................................................... 269 Fows or cîcken ....................................................................................................................... 270 he aers or cas, orîoes and srîkes ............................................................................. 271 Bokmakîerîe ............................................................................................................................ 273

PART FOUR – Reptiles & Invertebrates ....................................... 275

CHAPTER NINE | Repties .................................................................................................. 277

9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5

he crocodîe or aîgaor ........................................................................................................ 277 eguaans, agamas and îzards ................................................................................................ 279 Snakes and rock pyons ......................................................................................................... 282 Frogs, urogs and oads ....................................................................................................... 291 Toroîses and ures (Famîy293Ceonîans) ...........................................................................

CHAPTER TEN | Invertebrates ........................................................................................... 295

10.1 10.2

Aracnîds: scorpîons and spîders ........................................................................................... 295 ïnsecs: amîy ïnseca .............................................................................................................. 297 10.2.1 Ans ............................................................................................................................... 298 10.2.2 Bees .............................................................................................................................. 299 10.2.3 Beee ............................................................................................................................ 299 10.2.4 Cockroac .................................................................................................................... 299 10.2.5 Fîes ............................................................................................................................... 300 10.2.6 Crîckes ........................................................................................................................ 300 10.2.7 Grassoppers and ocuss ......................................................................................... 301 10.2.8 Wasps ............................................................................................................................ 302

FINDINGS AND CONCLUSION .......................................................................................... 305

ENDNOTES ............................................................................................................................ 313

BIBLIOGRAPHY AND REFERENCES ................................................................................. 320

GLOSSARY ............................................................................................................................. 332

INDEX – ANIMAL NAMES.............................................................................................................. 338

INDEX – PLACE NAMES.................................................................................................................. 353

INDEX – LANGUAGES..................................................................................................................... 363

LIST OF FIGURES

Marcîng women, Ekua cave, Erongo Mounaîns, Namîîa [A. Vîereck] ....................................

Rock-paînîng în e Jaow cave, Erongo, Namîîa [A. Vîereck] .....................................................

Famîy on e move, Jaow caves, Erongo, Namîîa [A. Vîereck] ....................................................

Par One: Namîng – Paînîng y Danîe Oe .....................................................................................

Fîgure 1.1.1: Two uners în Namîîa [Danîe Oe] .........................................................................

Fîgure 1.1.2: Men runnîng, Jaow cave, Ameî Erongo, Namîîa [A. Vîereck] .............................

Fîgure 1.2.1 Two Busmen uners, Omanduma-Wes, Erongo, Namîîa [A. Vîereck] ............

Fîgure 1.4 Aoe dîcooma, Kuîse Vaey ..........................................................................................

Fîgure 1.6.1 (a) Map îndîcaîng dîsrîuîon o Busman anguages [D. Beek 1929: Opp. p. 1] ......................................................................................................................

Fîgure 1.6.1 () Dîsrîuîon o Busman anguages, ater D.Beek 1929, 1956 [wî permîssîon rom Raper 2012] .....................................................................................................

Fîgure 1.6.2 Map: Koîsan anguages [Wîkîpedîa] ............................................................................

Fîgure 1.6.6 Fîgîng kudu us, Numas ravîne, Branderg [A. Vîereck] .....................................

Par wo: Mamma names – Eand a Dîdîma [Danîe Oe] ............................................................

Fîgure 2.1 îoness yawnîng [Danîe Oe] ...........................................................................................

Fîgure 2.1.1 (a) Mae îon growîng [Danîe Oe] ............................................................................

Fîgure 2.1.1() îon ace [Danîe Oe] ..............................................................................................

Fîgure 2.1.2 (a) Young ceeas [Danîe Oe] ..................................................................................

Fîgure 2.1.2 () Ceea sprînîng [Danîe Oe] ...............................................................................

Fîgure 2.1.2 (c) Ceea mae [Danîe Oe] .....................................................................................

Fîgure 2.1.2 (d) Maps y D. Fursenurg ............................................................................................

Fîgure 2.1.3 (a) Young eopard ongue dîspay [Danîe Oe] ..........................................................

Fîgure 2.1.3 () eopard în ree [Danîe Oe] ...................................................................................

Fîgure 2.1.3 (c) eopard,specîmen a e Voorrekker Monumen ................................................

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