In message <Pine.LNX.4.10.9906301636150.354-100000@...>,
Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> writes
>On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, John Fisher wrote:
>> To me the bird which worships the stars by
>> night would really have to be the nightingale (laytanlinic)...
>
>Did you read my sidebar note about _hinla_?
Oh yes, otherwise I would just have stuck "nightingale" in.
> Nobody ever sees a lark
>sleep, so it's said that at night it flies above the clouds (or at
>least somewhere where nobody can see or hear it) singing to the
>stars.
>
>I like your word for "nightingale"!
Thanks - it means something like "night-singer".
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John Fisher john@drummond.demon.co.uk johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk
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