Kanayla Tyler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
>I do speak spanish and the word for gerbil would be
>gerbil because it is not a native animal and one that
>spanish people do not normally come across, it is
>derived from our own language, what is called a
>cognative word. It would be pronounced air-beel.
>I name all of my gerbils in spanish...Why i don't know
>but i love the language and it is very pretty.
>Kanayla
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One of the online English-Spanish dictionaries suggests El Gerbo. But I
suspect that is Spanish for Jerboa.
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Julian
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