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Re: Starling song: Elet Anta

From:John Fisher <john@...>
Date:Thursday, July 1, 1999, 1:45
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". -- John Fisher john@drummond.demon.co.uk johnf@epcc.ed.ac.uk Elet Anta website: http://www.drummond.demon.co.uk/anta/ Drummond ro cleshfan merec; fanye litoc, inye litoc