{"id":11845,"date":"2021-03-16T15:56:00","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T19:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/?p=11845"},"modified":"2021-03-16T16:18:20","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T20:18:20","slug":"basket-shakers-more-on-those-naughty-kestrels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/birdaz.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/16\/basket-shakers-more-on-those-naughty-kestrels\/","title":{"rendered":"Basket Shakers: More on Those Naughty Kestrels"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Familiar wild birds. v.1. London ; New York :Cassell,1883. http:\/\/biodiversitylibrary.org\/item\/77239<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n

What the German bird books now know as the Turmfalke <\/em>has enjoyed a huge range of names over the centuries, among them Wannenweher<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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A Wanne <\/em>is a winnowing basket, among many other things. Since antiquity, the regular back-and-forth of winnowing has inspired what J.N. Adams delicately styles “a rustic metaphor<\/a>” for other rhythmic motions, and in German, the successors of the lexicographic brothers Grimm remind us that Wanne<\/em>, the instrument subjected to those motions, has been expressly glossed as denoting the feminine pelvis and associated structures<\/a>. (I do not know whether the French criblette<\/em>, also attested as a kestrel name<\/a>, occurs with the same meaning.)<\/p>\n

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The second part of the compound, wehen<\/em>, in the context of winnowing or thrashing also refers to a swaying or shaking movement. Thus, Wannenweher <\/em>occupies precisely the same risqu\u00e9 semantic field as our English name.<\/p>\n

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This observation raises a question about the apparently innocent alternative name R\u00fcttelfalke. <\/em>The verb r\u00fctteln<\/em>, meaning to sway or shake
violently, has also been used since at least the mid-nineteenth century to
refer to the hovering flight of kestrels, kites, and ospreys. That word, too,
however\u2014and no surprise here\u2014has been used with coarse physical signification.<\/p>\n

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The DWB declines to take a stand, noting only that “perhaps” such
raptor names as R\u00fcttelweihe <\/em>and R\u00fcttelgeier <\/em>were formed with
the more innocuous meaning of the verb in mind.<\/p>\n\n\n

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What the German bird books now know as the Turmfalke has enjoyed a huge range of names over the centuries, among them Wannenweher. \u00a0 A Wanne is a winnowing basket, among many other things. Since antiquity, the regular back-and-forth of winnowing has inspired what J.N. Adams delicately styles “a rustic metaphor” for other rhythmic motions, … <\/p>\n

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