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Table 9 Mandrake name distribution according to languages and categories: 292 vernacular names for the plant in 41 languages

From: In search of traces of the mandrake myth: the historical, and ethnobotanical roots of its vernacular names

Category

A

B

C

D

E

F

G

NC

Total

Subcategory/

A1

A2

A3

B1

B2

B3

C1

C2

C3

D1

D2

D3

E1

E2

E3

F1

F2

G1

G2

NC

Language

                     

Albanian

1

                   

1

Arabic

  

3

1

3

3

2

 

4

 

9

  

1

2

  

1

 

3

32

Aramaic

  

1

1

                

2

Armenian

1

   

1

 

1

          

1

  

4

Basque

                   

1

1

Bengali

  

1

                 

1

Berber

                   

2

2

Bulgarian

1

                   

1

Catalan

1

                  

1

2

Chinese

                   

1

1

Corsican

1

                   

1

Czech

   

2

      

1

         

3

Dagestani

             

1

      

1

Danish

 

1

 

1

    

1

           

3

Dutch

2

2

 

5

   

3

 

3

3

  

1

 

4

    

23

English

1

  

3

   

3

 

3

4

      

2

1

 

17

Estonian

         

1

          

1

Farsi

  

1

1

1

   

1

    

3

      

7

Finnish

 

1

      

1

           

2

French

1

  

2

 

2

   

1

 

1

1

1

 

1

 

1

  

11

Gaelic

       

1

            

1

Georgian

1

                   

1

German

 

1

 

7

 

3

1

5

3

2

6

4

 

1

 

7

 

2

  

42

German,Old

      

1

1

1

           

3

Greek

2

  

3

5

5

2

6

1

 

1

  

1

   

1

 

8

35

Hebrew

        

1

           

1

Hungarian

1

      

1

 

1

1

         

4

Icelandic

               

1

    

1

Italian

1

            

3

 

1

    

5

Latin

   

2

 

2

             

1

5

Norwegian

 

1

                  

1

Polish

1

  

1

      

1

 

3

      

1

7

Portuguese

1

                   

1

Russian

1

        

1

  

1

 

1

 

1

   

5

Serbo-Croatian

3

1

  

4

1

1

  

1

  

1

   

1

  

1

14

Slovak

     

1

              

1

Spanish

2

   

1

7

 

1

           

2

13

Syriac

                   

1

1

Swedish

 

2

                  

2

Turkish

1

 

2

4

3

4

3

 

3

 

2

 

1

3

  

1

  

4

31

Ukrainian

1

       

1

           

2

Total

24

9

8

33

18

28

11

21

17

13

28

5

7

15

3

14

3

8

1

26

292

  1. Abbreviations for categories and subcategories as in Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 and 8
  2. NC non-classified names