| From: | Mia Soderquist <happycritter@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, November 3, 2005, 14:25 |
On 11/3/05, taliesin the storyteller <taliesin-conlang@...> wrote:> > 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.Ea-luna has words for several kinds of bugs-- 'grasshopper', 'mosquito', 'praying mantis', 'fly', 'cockroach', 'bee' and 'butterfly'. There may be more, but those I found in a quick glance. The word for butterfly is "pewe". I haven't given bugs much thought in any newer projects. I think I just found a vocabulary hole to plug. Mia.