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Vernacular nomenclature of fish and cyclostomates in the trilingual dictionary of Kašpar Zachariáš Vusín

Publication at Faculty of Education |
2012

Abstract

The work builds on the article Vernacular Names of Lampreys and Fishes in the Czech Republic Territory (Hanel and Andreska 2011), in which we find a comprehensive overview of Czech fish name, as recorded in dictionaries since about 1360 until about the 1598th. This connection is complete tabular overview of the Czech names from the next, chronologically younger dictionary, written by Gaspar Zacharius Wusin.

The first part deals with personality of overview of its activities and importance in Czech history. The second part focuses on the Three-part Dictionary, in which many Czech names of fish are comprehended, which we refer to as the vernacular.

Contains a tabular summary of what is captured in the dictionary Latin, Czech and German names for fish. The last part deals with individual comparison, the currently used Czech names with names and descriptions of previous development before Linneaus's Nomenclature was accepted in the Czech lands.