Fran Ramovš Institut de la langue slovène, Centre de recherche de l'Académie slovène des sciences et des arts, Novi trg 2, 1000 Ljubljana

Der Beitrag enthält das Abstract ausschließlich in englischer Sprache.The article discusses Russian, Polish and Slovenian phraseological units containing the names of animals (zoonyms). The aim of the study is to determine to what extent the stereotyped imageof animals, fixed in phraseological units, corresponds to contemporary knowledge about the behaviour of animals. An analysis of phraseological units concerning a cow, bull, calf, ox, goat, sheep and ram is conducted. A comparison of these phraseologies with contemporary data on animal behaviour reveals a certain discrepancy between the actual intellectual and psychological capacities of animals and their image fixed in phraseological units.L'article contient uniquement le résumé en anglais