Re: Starling song: Elet Anta
| From: | Irina Rempt-Drijfhout <ira@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, June 30, 1999, 14:38 |
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On Wed, 30 Jun 1999, John Fisher wrote:
> I stuck to
> "wash clothes" for "do laundry", even though the heron doesn't really
> wash clothes because putting "feathers" (flenteva) would somehow miss
> the feeling of "laundry".
In Valdyan it's the same metaphor.
> 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_? 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"!
Irina
Varsinen an laynynay, saraz no arlet rastynay.
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