| From: | Peter Bleackley <peter.bleackley@...> |
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| Date: | Friday, November 4, 2005, 10:08 |
Staving taliesin the storyteller:>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.I read this article some time ago, and noted that words for "butterfly" tend to contain bilabials and at least partial reduplication. Hence the Khangaþyagon for "butterfly" is "babal". Pete
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