Re: Color terms and Animal names

Nik Taylor wrote:
> Here's some animals I've invented (altho details are unknown).
[etc.]

> These are all derived from female friends' names, with a specific
> distortion protocol applied (ikida', for instance, comes from "Erica"),
> and last names added to a few short names (naituni', for example, < Thai
> Nguyen).  For the most part, I simply adapted the name to the phonology,
> and then re-arranged consonants, for example, Erica --> Idika --> Ikida
> (d = [r] before i/y), Thai Nguyen --> Tainuyin --> Naituniy --> Naituni.
I bet your female friends are very happy to give their names to fish
:D