ornithonymy
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From ornithonym + -y.
Noun
[edit]ornithonymy (uncountable)
- The naming of birds; the creation of common names for birds; the use of bird names.
- 1984, Jaan Puhvel, Hittite Etymological Dictionary, page 176:
- Mermnad king of Lydia in whose family ornithonymy may have been rife .
- 2016, James Lambert, “Ornithonymy and Lexicographical Selection Criteria”, in International Journal of Lexicography, volume 30, number 1, pages 39–62:
- The complexity of ornithonymy increases the further back in time one looks.