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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Björn Bergenholtz" data-source="post: 3966409" data-attributes="member: 113430">berigora, boobook and boodang (... as well as mouki)Here's yet another Paper (even if a few years old, this time/one from 2016) by Mr Nash, all well worth the read, with some additional pieces, compared to his 2014 Paper (see post #1): David Nash (2016). In the margins of some Australian dictionaries: exploring the etymology of berigora. In Language, land & song: Studies in honour of Luise Hercus, edited by Peter K. Austin, Harold Koch & Jane Simpson. London: EL Publishing. pp. 263-276 (<a href="http://www.elpublishing.org/docs/6/01/LLS-Chapter-18-Nash.pdf" target="_blank">here</a>)As the Title indicate this Paper deals mainly with the origin and etymology of the Brown Falcon Falco berigora Vigors & Horsfield (1827), a k a "Brown Hawk" (by Gould), and it sure does, in every thinkable, linguistic detail/angle, presumably originating in:And onwards (via biraanggaarr, birrangga, ... etc., etc.), in the most minute detail regarding its origin (pp.265-271), incl. an even more thorough "Etymological discussion of berigora", on pp.268-270), all in all ending up with the following Conclusion (on p.271):The same Paper also (even if far more potted) deals with the following names, and their origin respectively:• Southern/Australian Boobook (Owl) Ninox boobook (Latham 1801), earlier a k a either "boobokspökuggla" [sic] or "Boobook-uggla" (in Swedish, thereby my particular interest): • Scarlet Robin (Muscicapa) Petroica boodang (Lesson 1837): • Nash also made the following comment [more or less repeated, and in line with what he wrote in 2014] on mouki (as in the Brown/Western Gerygone Gerygone mouki, Mathews, 1912, and the invalid ssp. Zonaeginthus/Taeniopygia castanotis "mouki", Mathews, 1912): Contrary to this comment, as we've seen countless times, Mathews equally/often named many toponyms in the same way; "marked by the Latin Genitive -i.", thereby (in my mind) it could very well be an eponym, but just as well a toponym (like Laurent pointed out in post #4). I choose to see Nash's comment (intention?) simply as excluding it as an autochthonym [i.e. not originating in a/any local bird name, thus not from a/any native (aboriginal, Australian) language]. However, enjoy!BjörnPS. The latter, not to confuse with Mouk Island (a k a Mok Island, Mok Mandrian), in the St Andrews Group/Islands, Manus Province, Bismarck Archipelago, North off (Papua) New Guinea (both birds were collected in Queensland, mainland Australia), and certainly not with the little bear Mouk, who travels the world on his bike (a French animated television series, that hardly makes it easier to search for the origin of mouki) <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite2" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=";)" />PPS. James, I have already sent you a PDF copy (of the first-mentioned paper above).</blockquote>

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