Rácz, János: There is a dog in the garden
Analytic metaphors involving names of domestic animals include a conspicuously large number of compounds including kutya 'dog' as an attributive anterior constituent (along with those including ló 'horse'). The author discusses such compounds in this paper. He also writes about the intuitive background of name giving and concludes that plants referred to by such compounds are frequently useless or even undesirable for the name giving community. They include weeds, toxic plants, and fruits that are not consumed with pleasure. The anterior constituent is an attribute of distinction. In contrast to useful, well-thought-of plants denoted by the posterior constituent alone, terms prefixed by kutya refer to wild-growing, inferior species. On the other hand, the anterior constituent may also refer to the fact that the plant in question is either an important medicine or else a seriously harmful poison for dogs.