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Re: Plant Names

From:Herman Miller <hmiller@...>
Date:Thursday, September 30, 1999, 4:01
On Tue, 28 Sep 1999 21:36:46 -0700, Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:

>Tsoikon dalon meko - Quercus Agrifolia (Coast Live Oak) Means 'spiny >leaved oak'.
We've got lots of live oaks around here in Texas, also. I guess from the range and description it's probably the Virginia live oak (Quercus virginiana), but I don't know much about trees. Tirelat for "oak" is "xaxt".
>Nalon jabo - Lupinus nanus (Sky lupine) Means 'sky lupine'. It actually >describes the plant well because the flowers are a sky blue color with a >white spot on them.
The Texas bluebonnet is also a lupine (Lupinus texensis), with a deep = blue color; the Tirelat name "gulelhom" is a sort of multilingual play on = words, since "lupine" also means "wolf-like" in English and "gul" is the Tirelat word for "wolf". Tirelat also has words for two other local wildflowers: "fila" the = evening primrose (Oenothera speciosa), and "nafi" the Indian blanket or firewheel (Gaillardia pulchella). --=20 languages of Kolagia---> = +---<http://www.io.com/~hmiller/languages.html>--- Thryomanes /"If all Printers were determin'd not to print = any (Herman Miller) / thing till they were sure it would offend no = body, moc.oi @ rellimh <-/ there would be very little printed." -Ben = Franklin