Re: Butterflies
| From: | Mia Soderquist <happycritter@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 3, 2005, 15:26 |
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On 11/3/05, Raivo Seppo <uiracocha@...> wrote:
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> A newcomer in the list proposes to extend the theme: what are the
> roots/words semantically connected to the term ´butterfly`or is the term
> an
> independent one? It´s quite obvious in English (butter-fly, OE
> butorfleoge)
> or, perhaps, in Estonian - ´liblikas´ is derived from ´lible`(a
> grass-blade). As I remember, Greek ´psyche´also referred to the insect,
> being appositely animistic in that connection.
>
Well, that's easy enough in the case of ea-luna. It's an independent word.
"Moth" is "ewipewe", a 'nightbutterfly', on the other hand.
The root vocabulary of ea-luna contains a good number of words that probably
should be related to or derived from others, but aren't. Ah, well. It does
what it was designed to do. It makes me happy. I just wish my newer projects
made me as happy.