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Table 9 Hydrology related set of Csángó habitat terms, their meanings and English equivalents (literal translations of names are given in parentheses)

From: Multidimensionality and scale in a landscape ethnoecological partitioning of a mountainous landscape (Gyimes, Eastern Carpathians, Romania)

Csángó habitat names

Meanings and English equivalents

selymékes, selyke, sepedékes hely, tepsányos 2

Fens around springs, mainly sedge-dominated stands, rarely with Sphagnum (a sinking area)

mocsaras hely 2

Muddy areas around springs or along streams, with sedge-dominated stands (marshy place)

sátészély 2,3

Edge of a fen (the same)

félvizenyes hely, szinte olyan vizenyes, s mégse 3

Partly waterlogged soils on the margin of fens (half-watered place)

vizes hely, vizenyes terület 1,2

Wetlands (wet place)

víz, taploca 2

Warmer spring and its creek, that never freezes (water, ?)

vízszélye 2

At the edge of waters (the same)

lapos, ahol a víz elterül 2

Flooded place (flooded, where it is flooded)

forrásfej, kicsi források mellett 3

Spring (spring head / around small springs)

patak, patak mentén, patak szélén, vizek mentén 1,2

Smaller stream or along streams (stream, along streams, at the water)

tócsa, pocsolya 3

Puddle (the same)

tó, állóvíz 2,3

Lakes (lake, standing water)

  1. Superscripts indicate scale: 1macrohabitat; 2mesohabitat; 3microhabitat.