Some Lithuanian ethnobotanical taxa: a linguistic view on Thorn Apple and related plants

BACKGROUND: The perception and use of plants correspond with common plant names. The study of plant names may give insight into historical and recent use of plants. METHODS: Plant names in dictionaries and folklore have been evaluated. A etymological analysis of the names is provided. Onomasiologica...

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Autores principales: Šeškauskaitė, Daiva, Gliwa, Bernd
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16512899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-2-13
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Gliwa, Bernd
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description BACKGROUND: The perception and use of plants correspond with common plant names. The study of plant names may give insight into historical and recent use of plants. METHODS: Plant names in dictionaries and folklore have been evaluated. A etymological analysis of the names is provided. Onomasiological and semasiological aspects have been considered. Therefore, species named with names related to each other have been selected. RESULTS: Plant names containing the stem dag- or deg- may belong to either of two categories: incenses or thorny plants. Plants named in durn- have been in use as psychopharmaca. The name rymo points not to Rome but to the use of plants as anodyne or psychopharmaca.
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spelling pubmed-14202692006-03-30 Some Lithuanian ethnobotanical taxa: a linguistic view on Thorn Apple and related plants Šeškauskaitė, Daiva Gliwa, Bernd J Ethnobiol Ethnomed Research BACKGROUND: The perception and use of plants correspond with common plant names. The study of plant names may give insight into historical and recent use of plants. METHODS: Plant names in dictionaries and folklore have been evaluated. A etymological analysis of the names is provided. Onomasiological and semasiological aspects have been considered. Therefore, species named with names related to each other have been selected. RESULTS: Plant names containing the stem dag- or deg- may belong to either of two categories: incenses or thorny plants. Plants named in durn- have been in use as psychopharmaca. The name rymo points not to Rome but to the use of plants as anodyne or psychopharmaca. BioMed Central 2006-03-02 /pmc/articles/PMC1420269/ /pubmed/16512899 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-2-13 Text en Copyright © 2006 Šeškauskaitė and Gliwa; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Some Lithuanian ethnobotanical taxa: a linguistic view on Thorn Apple and related plants
title Some Lithuanian ethnobotanical taxa: a linguistic view on Thorn Apple and related plants
title_full Some Lithuanian ethnobotanical taxa: a linguistic view on Thorn Apple and related plants
title_fullStr Some Lithuanian ethnobotanical taxa: a linguistic view on Thorn Apple and related plants
title_full_unstemmed Some Lithuanian ethnobotanical taxa: a linguistic view on Thorn Apple and related plants
title_short Some Lithuanian ethnobotanical taxa: a linguistic view on Thorn Apple and related plants
title_sort some lithuanian ethnobotanical taxa: a linguistic view on thorn apple and related plants
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1420269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16512899
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1746-4269-2-13
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