Re: Color terms and Animal names
| From: | Sylvia Sotomayor <sylvia1@...> |
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| Date: | Saturday, November 21, 1998, 9:02 |
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At 03:47 AM 11/21/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Sylvia Sotomayor wrote:
>> As for animal names, since Kelenj is spoken by a non-human people on
>> some other world than this one, they wouldn't have words for our
>> fauna. Unfortunately, i never got around to figuring out in detail
>> what the Kelenj fauna are. But, I've come up with the words:
>[Snip]
>> etume
>> a large flying creature that steals children at night (unless they're
>> at home in bed where they're supposed to be.)
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>Mythical?
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No, not really. Rare, at least in settled areas, but there have been a few
reliable sightings, and of course a lot of rumors.
Sylvia
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