Re: Fluency Wish-List

>On Mon, 17 Apr 2000, BP Jonsson wrote:
>
>> There are languages which don't make a difference between legs and feet --
>> they have one word covering everything from the hip to the toe.
>
>I have a feeling that Valdyan *does* have "toe", "heel", "ankle",
>"calf", "shin", "knee", "thigh", "hip" and certainly also "leg", but
>I haven't come across the words yet!
Tokana has different words for "leg" and "foot" when it comes to
people, "kalia" = "leg" and "kusta" = "foot".  However, the word
for foot is not used with animals.  The "kalia" of an animal includes
what we would call the foot as well as the leg.

If it is absolutely necessary to refer to the terminus of an animal's
leg, another word may be used.  For non-hoofed terrestrial mammals
there's "naua" = "paw" (also used of people to mean the palm of the
hand or sole of the foot).  There are also words for "claw", "flipper",
"hoof", etc., but I don't remember what they are.

Matt.