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In the English language, many animals have different names depending on whether they are male, female, young, domesticated, or in groups. The best-known source of many English words used for collective groupings of animals is The Book of Saint Albans , an essay on hunting published in 1486 and attributed to Juliana Berners . [ 1 ]
Eric Partridge refers to these sporting terms as "snob plurals" and conjectures that they may have developed by analogy with the common English irregular plural animal words "deer", "sheep" and "trout". [6] Similarly, nearly all kinds of fish have no separate plural form (though there are exceptions—such as rays, sharks or lampreys).
Latin/Greek Language English Example Search for titles containing the word or using the prefix: acanthus etc.: G ἄκανθος (ákanthos): thorny, spiny: Acanthus plant; Parorchis acanthus, a flatworm
Use the singular form, including for groups or types of animals, following WP:Naming conventions (plurals): Beetle not Beetles (the latter redirects to the former). (See § Capitalisation and italicisation below for upper/lower case guidelines).
The Treatise, written by Walter of Bibbesworth in the mid-1200s, is the earliest source for collective nouns of animals in any European vernacular (and also the earliest source for animal noises). [7] The Venerie of Twiti (early 14th century) distinguished three types of droppings of animals, and three different terms for herds of animals.
The word cow came via Anglo-Saxon cū (plural cȳ), from Common Indo-European gʷōus (genitive gʷowés) 'a bovine animal', cf. Persian: gâv, Sanskrit: go-, Welsh: buwch. [18] The plural cȳ became ki or kie in Middle English, and an additional plural ending was often added, giving kine, kien, but also kies, kuin and others.
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From mazame, the plural of mazatl "deer". [159] Mazama bororo (small red brocket) deer: Bororo: Named after the Bororo people: Mazama chunyi (dwarf brocket) [citation needed] Mazama gouazoubira gray brocket: deer: Guarani: The specific name comes from guazú-birá ("small deer"), the name of the animal among the Guarani of Paraguay. [79]