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Re: Butterflies

From:Mia Soderquist <happycritter@...>
Date:Thursday, November 3, 2005, 15:26
On 11/3/05, Raivo Seppo <uiracocha@...> wrote:
> > 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.