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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.
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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 treads in naming ..................................................................
1.1
1.2
1.3
1.4 1.5.
1.6
Background o e vocauary o anîma names ................................................................. 1.1.1 Eary namîng moîves and ormaîves ..................................................................... 1.1.2 he dîversîy o anguages and cuures în namîng ............................................... On e spoor o anîma and pace names .............................................................................. 1.2.1 Evouîonary processes în namîng ........................................................................... 1.2.2 Proems în comparîng onymîc ormaîves ........................................................... 1.2.3 Researc quesîons and caenges .......................................................................... Searcîng or roo eemens o namîng ................................................................................. 1.3.1 Anaysîng e eemens o namîng .......................................................................... 1.3.2 he aocaîon and recordîng o îndîgenous anîma names .................................. 1.3.3 Fîndîng namîng ormaîves ...................................................................................... 1.3.4 Tesîng e ‘sound-meanîng’ meod ...................................................................... Area o researc ....................................................................................................................... Evauaîon and presenaîon o anîma names în oponyms ............................................... 1.5.1 ïnerpreîng and evauaîng e daa ....................................................................... 1.5.2 Presenaîon o daa .................................................................................................... 1.5.3 Toponyms derîved rom anîma names .................................................................. Onomasîc and înguîsîc crîerîa .......................................................................................... 1.6.1Dîsrîuîon and cassîIcaîon o Busman anguages .......................................... 1.6.2 Dîverse înguîsîc conexs ......................................................................................... 1.6.3 Tracîng orîgîna eymoogîes ..................................................................................... 1.6.4 ïnerînguîsîc conac as key o sovîng eymoogîes ............................................ 1.6.5 Reconsrucîng orîgîna orms and ok-eymoogîca adapaîons .....................
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1.7. 1.8.
1.6.6 Unîormîy o namîng sraegîes .............................................................................. 1.6.7 Evouîonary înguîsîc and onomasîc namîng processes ................................... 1.6.8 Esaîsmen o a paeo-înguîsîc vocauary ..................................................... Topograpîca verîIcaîon: Pace names în conex ............................................................. ïndîgenous names o anîmas în zooogîca axonomy ........................................................
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PART TWO – Mammal names ......................................................... 69
CHAPTER TWO | Carnivores, teir names and toponyms derived rom tem ................
2.1.
2.2
2.3
2.4
2.5
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he ca amîy – Feîdae ........................................................................................................... 71 2.1.1 he îon ......................................................................................................................... 71 2.1.2 he ceea .................................................................................................................. 76 2.1.3 he eopard .................................................................................................................. 85 2.1.4 he caraca ................................................................................................................... 90 2.1.5 he Arîcan wîd ca ................................................................................................... 91 2.1.6 he serva ca ............................................................................................................... 93 2.1.7 he sma spoed ca .................................................................................................. 94 he amîy Hyaenîdae: yenas, aardwo and oer ‘woves’ ............................................... 95 2.2.1 he rown yena ......................................................................................................... 95 2.2.2 he spoed yena ....................................................................................................... 96 2.2.3 he aardwo ................................................................................................................ 109 he dog amîy, Canîdae: wîd dogs, jackas and oxes ....................................................... 110 2.3.1 he wîd dog ................................................................................................................ 110 2.3.2 he jackas .................................................................................................................... 114 2.3.3 Foxes or ‘smaer jackas’ ............................................................................................ 121 Smaer mammas, amîy Vîverrîdae, Museîdae .............................................................. 124 2.4.1 Meerkas ....................................................................................................................... 124 2.4.2 he yeow or usy-aîed mongoose ...................................................................... 127 2.4.3 he genes, muskejaa- or muskejaaka ................................................................ 128 2.4.4 Mongoose amîy ........................................................................................................ 129 2.4.5 Honey adger or rae ................................................................................................. 132 Bas and mîce ............................................................................................................................ 133
CHAPTER THREE | Primates: baboons and vervet monkeys ............................................ 137
3.1 3.2
Cacma or savanna aoon .................................................................................................... 137 he verve monkeys .................................................................................................................. 143
CHAPTER FOUR | he ooed mammas: non-ruminants ............................................... 145
4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4
Rînoceros: ack rîno and wîe rîno .............................................................................. 145 he amîy Hîppopoamîdae,H. ampîbîus.......................................................................... 153 he Arîcan eepan ................................................................................................................ 155 he swîne amîy, Suîdae and oer porcîne mammas ....................................................... 159 4.4.1 he anear .................................................................................................................. 159 4.4.2 he scay aneaer or pangoîn ................................................................................... 163 4.4.3 he uspîg .................................................................................................................. 166 4.4.4 he warog ................................................................................................................. 168 4.4.5 he porcupîne ............................................................................................................. 169
CHAPTER FIVE | Hooed mammas: bovines, girafe and anteope ................................ 174
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Su-amîy Bovînae: cae and ufao .................................................................................. 174 5.1.1 Cae, us and cows ................................................................................................ 174 5.1.2 Bufao .......................................................................................................................... 177 he gîrafe, amîy Gîraidae .................................................................................................. 180 5.2.1 he gîrafe .................................................................................................................... 181 he aneope amîy and oer rumînans încudîng suamîîes and rîes, e.g. Neoragînî, Reduncînî, Hîpporagînî and Trageapînî ............................................... 186 5.3.1 he eand ...................................................................................................................... 186 5.3.2 he greaer kudu ........................................................................................................ 190 5.3.3 he gemsok ............................................................................................................... 192 5.3.4 he sae aneope ....................................................................................................... 195 5.3.5 he ecwe .................................................................................................................. 196 5.3.6 he waeruck ............................................................................................................. 198 5.3.7 he usuck .............................................................................................................. 200 5.3.8 Reeduck ...................................................................................................................... 200 5.3.9 he sprînguck ............................................................................................................ 201 5.3.10 he împaa ................................................................................................................... 204 he smaer and dwar aneope .............................................................................................. 206 5.4.1 he seenok ................................................................................................................ 206 5.4.2 he orîî ....................................................................................................................... 210 5.4.3 he kîpsprînger .......................................................................................................... 212 5.4.4 he duîker .................................................................................................................... 213
CHAPTER SIX | he Equidae or orse amiy .................................................................... 216
6.1 6.2
Zeras and kwaggas .................................................................................................................. 216 Wîd asses and ‘wîd orses’ .................................................................................................... 221
CHAPTER SEVEN | he Aceapini tribe .......................................................................... 228
7.1 7.2.
he wîdeeess ........................................................................................................................ 228 Oer memers o e Aceapînî rîe ............................................................................... 233 7.2.1 he esok .................................................................................................................. 234 7.2.2 he oneok ............................................................................................................... 235 7.2.3 he areees ............................................................................................................. 237 7.2.4 he sessee or sassay ............................................................................................... 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
Osrîc ........................................................................................................................................ 244 Vuures ..................................................................................................................................... 247 Ows and nîg awks .............................................................................................................. 249 Bue crane .................................................................................................................................. 255 he amerkop ........................................................................................................................... 256 Busards, korî usards or gompous ....................................................................................... 257 Knorane or korane ............................................................................................................... 259 Ground ornî, ‘romvoë’ .................................................................................................. 261 Crows ........................................................................................................................................ 263 Guînea ow ............................................................................................................................... 266 Parrîdges and peasans ......................................................................................................... 267 he quaî .................................................................................................................................... 269 Fows or cîcken ....................................................................................................................... 270 he aers or cas, orîoes and srîkes ............................................................................. 271 Bokmakîerîe ............................................................................................................................ 273
PART FOUR – Reptiles & Invertebrates ....................................... 275
CHAPTER NINE | Repties .................................................................................................. 277
9.1 9.2 9.3 9.4 9.5
he crocodîe or aîgaor ........................................................................................................ 277 eguaans, agamas and îzards ................................................................................................ 279 Snakes and rock pyons ......................................................................................................... 282 Frogs, urogs and oads ....................................................................................................... 291 Toroîses and ures (Famîy293Ceonîans) ...........................................................................
CHAPTER TEN | Invertebrates ........................................................................................... 295
10.1 10.2
Aracnîds: scorpîons and spîders ........................................................................................... 295 ïnsecs: amîy ïnseca .............................................................................................................. 297 10.2.1 Ans ............................................................................................................................... 298 10.2.2 Bees .............................................................................................................................. 299 10.2.3 Beee ............................................................................................................................ 299 10.2.4 Cockroac .................................................................................................................... 299 10.2.5 Fîes ............................................................................................................................... 300 10.2.6 Crîckes ........................................................................................................................ 300 10.2.7 Grassoppers and ocuss ......................................................................................... 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
Marcîng women, Ekua cave, Erongo Mounaîns, Namîîa [A. Vîereck] ....................................
Rock-paînîng în e Jaow cave, Erongo, Namîîa [A. Vîereck] .....................................................
Famîy on e move, Jaow caves, Erongo, Namîîa [A. Vîereck] ....................................................
Par One: Namîng – Paînîng y Danîe Oe .....................................................................................
Fîgure 1.1.1: Two uners în Namîîa [Danîe Oe] .........................................................................
Fîgure 1.1.2: Men runnîng, Jaow cave, Ameî Erongo, Namîîa [A. Vîereck] .............................
Fîgure 1.2.1 Two Busmen uners, Omanduma-Wes, Erongo, Namîîa [A. Vîereck] ............
Fîgure 1.4 Aoe dîcooma, Kuîse Vaey ..........................................................................................
Fîgure 1.6.1 (a) Map îndîcaîng dîsrîuîon o Busman anguages [D. Beek 1929: Opp. p. 1] ......................................................................................................................
Fîgure 1.6.1 () Dîsrîuîon o Busman anguages, ater D.Beek 1929, 1956 [wî permîssîon rom Raper 2012] .....................................................................................................
Fîgure 1.6.2 Map: Koîsan anguages [Wîkîpedîa] ............................................................................
Fîgure 1.6.6 Fîgîng kudu us, Numas ravîne, Branderg [A. Vîereck] .....................................
Par wo: Mamma names – Eand a Dîdîma [Danîe Oe] ............................................................
Fîgure 2.1 îoness yawnîng [Danîe Oe] ...........................................................................................
Fîgure 2.1.1 (a) Mae îon growîng [Danîe Oe] ............................................................................
Fîgure 2.1.1() îon ace [Danîe Oe] ..............................................................................................
Fîgure 2.1.2 (a) Young ceeas [Danîe Oe] ..................................................................................
Fîgure 2.1.2 () Ceea sprînîng [Danîe Oe] ...............................................................................
Fîgure 2.1.2 (c) Ceea mae [Danîe Oe] .....................................................................................
Fîgure 2.1.2 (d) Maps y D. Fursenurg ............................................................................................
Fîgure 2.1.3 (a) Young eopard ongue dîspay [Danîe Oe] ..........................................................
Fîgure 2.1.3 () eopard în ree [Danîe Oe] ...................................................................................
Fîgure 2.1.3 (c) eopard,specîmen a e Voorrekker Monumen ................................................
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