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Re: Butterflies

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Thursday, September 18, 2003, 0:42
On Wed, 17 Sep 2003 10:54:41 +0100, Peter Bleackley
<Peter.Bleackley@...> wrote:

>In the recent discussion of words for "butterfly", I noticed two things- >1) Words for butterfly often contain labial sounds >2) An element of reduplication is frequently present. > >I have therefore decided that the Khangaþyagon for butterfly will be >"babal" (pronounced [b&b&l]). What are other people's words for butterfly?
Jarda "gjundi" Tirelat "djúndi" (from Jarda)

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