ANIMAL WORD LISTEnglish-Swedish-French-Latin Animal Word ListThis list can be used by anyone who needs to find animal names in the above languages.KeyWords or letters within / / can be left out, e.g. 'cottontail /rabbit/', 'pussy /cat/'. Usually one slash (/) denotes a variant, e.g. 'green woodpigeon/woodpecker, where / can be read as 'or'. <= developed from (e.g. from a Latin word). AbbreviationsAE=American English, Danish, English, French, Greek, Ho=Dutch, Italian, Latin, Norwegian, Portuguese, Ry=Russian, Spanish, Swedish, Sverige (Sweden), Ty=German, adjective, dialect/al/, diminutive, jmf=cf=compare, koll=collective, plural, N.G.=National Geographic Magazine, VK=VästerbottensKuriren (a local newspaper), S.N. Sveriges Natur (a magazine published by "Naturskyddsföreningen" =The Environmental Protection Society). Asterisk (*) denotes endangered species, esp. in Sweden, according to the "Red List" 2005-05-11, published by The Swedish National Environment Protection Board (see "Sources": Naturvårdsverkets 'Rödlista'). A new list will be published in 2010. N.G. 1995/3 contains pictures and silhouettes of 632 endangered species in the USA. N.G. 1995/9 contains "Hawaii's Lost World", extinct or endangered species. N.G. 1999/2 is almost completely devoted to "Biodiversity". See also S.N. 1994/4 about endangered fish species and P.A. Morris (1993): A Red Data Book for British Mammals, The Mammal Society, London. You can also find Red Lists on the Internet, e.g. "Lista Rossa degli Uccelli d'Italia" = "Red List of Italian Birds". This one is very useful and contains many beautiful photos: http://www.redlist.org/ "The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species". A new list was published in 2008. More about threatened species: http://www.arkive.org/ Pronunciation(English words): Words which are often difficult for Non-English Speakers are sometimes explained in phonetic spelling, always within brackets, [ ]. Often only the main accent is denoted. [--'-] means that the third syllable is stressed. Names which are the same in all three modern languages are usually not included, e.g. many dog species. As regards dogs, see American Kennel Club's site: http://www.akc.org/index.cfm?nav_area=homepage. Click on Breeds. There you will find many, many breeds with photos and information. A very good Swedish site of the same kind is Aktivhund.se Here is a comprehensive French site: http://www.chiensderace.com/ Here are cat breeds galore: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cat_breeds http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_över_kattraser and in French: Royal Canin-Les 70 fiches de races Horse breeds: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_över_hästraser and http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_horse_breeds and in French: http://www.feracheval.com/races-chevaux.php and http://www.lexiqueducheval.net/lexique_races_m_n.html Cattle breeds will be found in http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of breeds_of_cattle and http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lista_över_nötkreatursraser and http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liste_des_races_bovines In http://www.ansi.okstate.edu/breeds/ you can find sheep, goat and swine breeds besides horses and cattle already mentioned. Some animals have several different names (dialectal or regional), and some names can denote several different animals. Besides animal names there are also terms connected with animals (e.g. E 'entomophagous') and there are many etymological or other linguistic commentaries. The list, which comprises more than 3000 species, is of course far from complete as there are at least 2 million different animal species, 30 million according to certain scientists. The number of insect species is considered to be at least 1,5 million; in Sweden 18000 species have been described. N.G. 1999/2, page 22, contains up-to-date figures. According to Encyclopedia of Life (EOL) there are 1,8 million species (of plants and animals) named and described. (see: http://www.eol.org/index). Consequently my selection must be somewhat arbitrary, but I have tried to include as many common (=well-known) animals as possible, esp. Swedish or Scandinavian. European mammals are very well represented thanks to Brink's book "Alla Europas däggdjur" (All Europe's mammals), where the names are given in Latin, Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, Finnish, English, French and German. Kai Curry-Lindahl's "Afrikas däggdjur" is another fresh source. In it the names are given in Swedish, Latin, English, French and sometimes in Swahili or other African languages. Animal Diversity Web edited by The University of Michigan Museum of Zoology contains most of the world's Mammals, Birds, Reptiles, Fishes and Other Vertebrates, chiefly in English and Latin. Try it! http://animaldiversity.ummz.umich.edu/ North American Mammals is also very interesting. See: http://www.mnh.si.edu/mna/ More than 4850 mammals + 10000 subspecies will be found on the following site, which contains 'anything' you wish to know: http://www.planet-mammiferes.org/ There are two versions, one in English and one in French. Well worth many visits! There are many birds, most of them from the Western European fauna. Cramp & Perrin's "Handbook of the Birds of Europe..." has been a real "gold mine" for me. In those nine volumes the names are given in Latin, English, Dutch, French, German, Russian, Spanish and Swedish. And the pictures are exquisite! More birds: "Avibase" is marvellous: See http://www.bsc-eoc.org/avibase/avibase.jsp Another great site is http://www.oiseaux.net. I was astounded by the amount of information and all the pictures (which can all be enlarged). Try it! Another book which gives a lot of information to a person who is interested in languages is Svensson's "Identification Guide...". Michael Walter's "The Complete Birds..." fills up with all imaginable bird names in English and Latin. Yet another book with several languages (English, Latin, German, Dutch, French and Swedish) is "A Field Guide to the Birds of Britain and Europe" by Peterson-Mountfort-Hollom. (See Sources!) On the Internet there are many sites with animal names, mostly in English and Latin, but French, German, and Swedish can also be found. I can recommend Eurobird net with the following Internet address: http://www.pheromone.ekol.lu.se/Eurobirdnet.html The Swedish version contains ab 1960 species in Swedish, English and Latin. There is also a so called Holarctic list. I quote: "The Holarctic List. The Official Swedish list of new Swedish names of all birds in the Holarctic Region. (Includes Western Palearctic, Arabian peninsula and North America north of Mexico). This is a web version of a list with Swedish, English and Scientific names on all species in the Holarctic Region by the Swedish Bird Name Committee, Swedish Ornithological Society (SOF). It is also a list of all species observed in Sweden; breeding, migrant & rare (all accepted records by the Swedish Rarities Committee up to 1997). Updated 981223. Split in 6 parts for faster loading. The list is made for reading only..." (See: http://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kategori:Fåglar_i_palearktiska_regionen). A French site I would like to recommend is: http://listoiseauxmonde.multimania.com/ "The Multilingual Bird-search Engine" (http://www.knutas.com/birdsearch/) has bird names in 18 different languages! Try also: http://www.birds-of-denmark.dk/index.htm. A wonderful site! Here is an interesting site: The Birds of North America Online. See: http://bna.birds.cornell.edu/bna/species Here you will find 222 different owls: owlpages.com/owls.php?genus=all As regards the butterflies , most of the names are from "Europas fjärilar" by Higgins & Riley. Among ab 380 butterflies described I have mainly chosen those which are to be found in Scandinavia. The following site contains a lot of information and pictures of butterflies: http://butterflywebsite.com/ See also http://imaginebutterflies.dk In "Svärmare och spinnare i Europa och Nordafrika" (Hawk moths and Spinning moths in Europe and North Africa), by Rougeot & Viette, the names are given in Swedish, Latin, English, German, and French. A book that has been very useful to me is Gozmány's "Seven-Language Thesaurus of European Animals". (See Sources!) Try Biopix (http://www.biopix.dk/Default.asp?Language=sv) where you will find lots of biological pictures and names of species in 8 different languages. A marvellous "site" is www.fishbase.org/search . Lots of fish photos! I have added some site addresses. Normally you can mark a name and use Google or other search engines to get more information. Wikipedia usually gives names in many languages. Apart from the Animal Word List there is a list of Mammal Orders and Families and a list of Bird Families. Moreover, there is a Latin/Greek-Swedish Word List containing a selection of words you will find in animal names, and some anatomical terms. For (possible) flaws and shortcomings I apologize. I will revise the lists continually. If you have comments, you can use the following mail address: djurordlistan@nordiq.net |