Re: Butterflies

'Neo-Khitanese' seems to have the following:

1) katuma  "butterfly, moth""; an obvious loan from Kurile Ainu;

2) tenggerji "a type of butterfly", but in older texts apparently
also "spider"; both senses with well-attested Tungusic cognates;

3) gepekte, gepeki "butterfly, moth"; c.f. Jurchen gepo, Manchu
gefehe but with no other attested Tungusic (or Altaic, IIRC)
cognates; the most common and "basic" term for this kind of bug in
'Neo-Khitanese'.


At 2:33 PM +0100 3/11/05, taliesin the storyteller 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.
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