Magyar Nyelvőr

Harka, Ákos: Names of fish in the Tiszafüred region. The author has been observing the fish stock of the river Tisza in the region of the Tisza Lake since 1970. He has been in close contact with fishermen of the area and he often went fishing with them at dawn. His informants had learned the trade from their fathers. - The part of the river concerned was turned into an artificial lake in 1978. Fishing rights were conferred onto the organization of anglers. Large-scale fishing first became a 'tolerated' type of activity and then was put an end to a few years ago. Since then, local fish names are less and less used. The author undertook to save them from oblivion. In his survey, he gives a taxonomic list of the species of fish known in the Tiszafüred region. Each item contains the Hungarian name of the species as used in specialized discourse, then the (Latin) technical term, followed by the set of local names, some of which are accompanied by quotations of etymological remarks given by the informants themselves.