Re: TANGENT: Animals

Barry Garcia wrote:


> Well, where I live, we still have wild lands right up to the edge of my
> city, so we often see many wild animals. Most common are raccoons, skunks,
> deer, opossum (like big ugly rats), mice, snakes, lizards, coyotes, foxes,
> vultures, hawks, and lots of other birds. It's nice until they get into
> your trash or sneak into your backyard and almost spray your dog (as is
> the case with a skunk that often visits my backyard. I know its there
> because I can smell it :).
I'd say you live in the southwest, or in Mexico.  Right?

> 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 animals
> or otherwise)? I havent yet, the only one i have is bat (ladontaro) .
We did an animal list some time ago... eight or nine months ago?  It
grew
out of our list for colors.  Someone posted a list of his colors in his
conlang and asked us to guess them.  I posted a list of my animals and
asked people to guess them... the point being that some words may just
"sound" right for a color or an animal.  My biggest trap was "kwermit,"
which everyone guessed "frog," but it means "duck."  <G>

My new animal words grew out of the last Translation relay:

        lyralyt for "lark,"
        nosoht  for "heron,"
        tahuot for "starling" (noisy bird)

I have a list of male and female animals, and I need to put that on
line.

Sally
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