Abstract
The study of linguistic units has a great interest and importance for linguists, formed as a result of the reflection process of wild birds‘ domestication. The significant impact on humankind‘s consciousness has left knowledge about the benefits and harms of birds, their properties, and their essence. Birds have a special place in human cognition, superstitions, and beliefs. People cherish them, as they are able to predict the changes in seasonal phenomena. Studying birds‘ behavior, manners, and gestures, people concluded that birds can anticipate disasters occurring in nature, thus people can be warned. Human beings understand and share the close liaison between man and bird, being a part of nature, formed in unity, who have a common habitat and air, they breathe. Linguistic data (legends, phraseological units, and proverbs, riddles, parables) evidences the fact that birds occupy a significant place in a person's life, his worldview. The wild birds‘ domestication and the areas of their application concepts are researched and discussed in this article. The birds‘ names and their origin are linguistically analyzed through the prism of the Kazakh people‘s features, characterizing their nature and cognition. The names related to prey birds were created, first of all, to fill the lack of titles in a particular nomination phenomenon, and secondly, to enrich figurative linguistic units. As for the names, some were formed linguistically, others cognitively. As a result, in the Kazakh language, there were collected the names of literary, folk, and local wild pray birds, their lexical layer, and word formation. And as a result, there were revealed their applicative features the phraseological, paremiological fund, figurative, and, of course, their evaluative properties, as well as previously used definitions, now out-ofuse terms, related to birds.