Dog dictionary

The coexistence of man and dog has lasted since ancient times. Probably our very first pet. Over the millennia, hundreds of dog species with very different characteristics have evolved, each of which has been given a name by man. Many people know that the name of the Bernese Mountain dog breed comes from the fact that on the Great St. Bernard Pass connecting Switzerland and Italy, monks searched and rescued people lost in a snowstorm or avalanche from the end of the 17th century with the help of specially trained dogs. However, do you know that the word bulldog was originally word composition, the dog suffix of the composition means dog, and the English bull prefix meaning bull suggests that this eb used to be involved in animal battles in which dogs were incited to shackled bulls? Who would have thought that the terrier breed name can be traced back to the second element of the French chien terrier ground dog meaning, and the antecedent of the word terrier is the Latin word terra, which means earth? Did you think that the name kopo was the result of a change of word, since the form of the kop version of the verb kap-n with its adjective suffix was nouned, and its original meaning could have been catchy, gripping, captivating? In 410 articles, the Dog Dictionary fully processes the names of dog breeds, indicating the many cultural and cultural knowledge related to them. At the beginning of the articles, you can find the source name of the given dog breed when and where it first appeared in Hungarian writing. The explanatory part of the article deals in detail with the origin of the name of the dog breed, describes the etymology of the name, the motive for naming it, and the foreign language equivalents. Following the linguistic information on the names of the dog breeds, a description of the dog breed follows. If important, the dictionary also provides some information on dog keeping and dog care. The Dog Dictionary contains 85 drawings of typical dog breeds. János Rácz published several dictionaries at TINTA Könyvkiadó, including the encyclopedia of popular Animal Names. The author's utterances dealing with plant and animal names are regularly published by the Hungarian Language Guard. János Rácz was awarded the Golden Penna Award by TINTA Könyvkiadó in 2011.