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1. Re: Butterflies
From: Henrik Theiling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
2. Re: Butterflies
From: Donald Boozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Message: 1
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 13:00:02 +0100
From: Henrik Theiling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Butterflies
Hi!
> I came over this text:
> and it made me think: what are the word(s) for "butterfly" in various
> conlangs? Klingon lacks the word I think, and I have few if any words
> for insects in my langs and sketches, including a word for butterfly.
In Fukhian:
worm - dub [dUp]
This was coined for
Zamf dubaudi.
zan-f dub-aud-i(r)
end-LOC worm-only-PL.NOM
Only worms at the end
This is after one proposed translation of 'Derevaun Seraun' in James
Joyce's 'Eveline, which is 'There is one end: maggots.' Probably it
means nothing but at the time I made Fukhian, I found the idea funny
to say this in two words.
Or does 'Derevaun Seraun' mean anything? (After the last farce of the
whole list failing to recognise a song text as Farsi, I am not
confident this can be solved, but this time, it's probably gibberish
anyway. :P)
In the meantime, I made Qthyn|gai, where it would be only one word, if
the lexicon had enough stems: :-)
I think I had one word in mind but never wrote it down:
insect - xacdub [XaSdUp] (xac- 'fly-' + dub 'worm')
Of course, there are insects that don't fly, so that could be the
reason why I did not lexicalise it like this. Anyway, I found the
construction neat. :-)
No other words, unfortunately.
**Henrik
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Message: 2
Date: Fri, 4 Nov 2005 06:36:38 -0800
From: Donald Boozer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Butterflies
I don't know whether anyone has noticed this web page
yet, so I apologize for redundancy if so.
http://www.insects.org/ced4/etymology.html
This page has a number of etymologies (or at least
languages) for butterfly, moth, and caterpillar.
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