Re: TANGENT: Animals

On Thu, 23 Sep 1999 19:06:49 -0700, Barry Garcia
<Barry_Garcia@...> wrote:

>So this kind of ties in with the nature of the list, have any of you
>actually concentrated on names for animals in your conlangs(earth animal=
s
>or otherwise)? I havent yet, the only one i have is bat (ladontaro) .
I got a few in Tech; these are the 'full stems' (which the oblique cases =
are=20
based on; I haven't come up with the often-shorter nominative case forms=20
yet):

`ap'aro     wild boar
`iri        ass (male or colt)
bo=E7a        young deer
buk'a       bovine(s), cattle
bukegho     billygoat, ram
buyl'a      marten, ermine, sable
=E7oma        aurochs, buffalo
=E7awra       bull, calf
diq'a       goat
eli         deer, ram
gadi        kid, young goat
ghawi       wild game (esp. goat/sheep)
gurha       antelope (esp. male)
k=E4tt'a      wild goat
k'unarra    marten, polecat
ma=F1go       monkey
orru        gazelle, deer
p'ok'=FC      cattle (herd)
siwi=F1ge     leopard
tl'ibugha   hyena
uraba       squirrel (or small rodent)
=FCrrawi      lion, tiger (or large cat)

Obviously there's a lot of semantic overlap, and there are quite a few wo=
rds=20
for deer or bovine.  I'll work all this mess out...

Danny

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