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Re: Color terms and Animal names

From:Eric Christopherson <eric@...>
Date:Saturday, November 21, 1998, 18:34
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