Re: Butterflies

taliesin the storyteller skrev:
> 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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> t.
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The Mærik word is _akopp_.
Shamefully none of the Sohlob dialects has a word
for "butterfly" (yet).

I suppose you know the Swedish word is _fjäril_ and
'moth' is _nattfjäril_ "night-butterfly".

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/BP 8^)>
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