Re: Butterflies

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On 11/4/05, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:
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> What I *meant* to say in the last mail was that butterfly is a weird
> special case and that it is more fruitful to look at the sounds of it
> and its ilk in other languages. Why does three syllables dominate for
> instance, how many languages uses reduplication in this case etc.
Three syllables? Quenya has _wilwarin_, which fits the pattern.

Seo Sanghyeon