Motivation of bird nomination in the russian and german languages

Abstract

The article deals with the problem of motivation of the ornithonemes in Russian and German languages; it is concerned with the typology of motivation characteristics of this lexico-semantic group. The most active motivation characteristics are distinguished which were put into the basis of bird nomination in both languages.

Keywords

• лексико-семантическая группа
• мотивация
• мотивировочный признак
• орнитоним