Rácz, János: Popular plant names in Hungarian
The Hungarian terminology of botanics includes a large number of compound terms involving names of animals. Some of these terms are of a respectable age; others are based on popular names that are still in use in certain dialects. In this paper, the author discusses compound plant names that include the animal name farkas 'wolf'. He gives their word histories from their first occurrence in written documents, as well as their word geographies on the basis of dialect dictionaries and ethnographic and botanic sources. In addition, he discusses the name giving habits and motivations that underlie them. Where appropriate, ancient and/or foreign-language parallels and correspondences are also given in a source-true form, accompanied by binominal meaning specifications.