Re: Butterflies

Quoting Benct Philip Jonsson <bpj@...>:

> taliesin the storyteller skrev:
> > I came over this text:
> > http://www.trismegistos.com/IconicityInLanguage/Articles/Beeman.html
> > and it made me think: what are the word(s) for "butterfly" in various
> > conlangs? Klingon lacks the word I think, and I have few if any words
> > for insects in my langs and sketches, including a word for butterfly.
> >
> >
> > t.
> >
> >
>
> The Mærik word is _akopp_.
> Shamefully none of the Sohlob dialects has a word
> for "butterfly" (yet).
>
> I suppose you know the Swedish word is _fjäril_ and
> 'moth' is _nattfjäril_ "night-butterfly".
Actually, I wasn't aware of the word _nattfjäril_. I'd call 'em all _nattflyn_
(sg: _nattfly_), but a quick check in a couple dictionaries tells me that's
properly only a subcategory of _nattfjärilar_. You learn something new every
day.

_Nattfly_ means someting like "night-moth".

                                                Andreas