From nobody@digitalkingdom.org Tue Feb 06 09:00:49 2007 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list lojban-beginners); Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:00:49 -0800 (PST) Received: from nobody by chain.digitalkingdom.org with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HETgS-0007dR-B4 for lojban-beginners-real@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:00:46 -0800 Received: from phma.optus.nu ([166.82.175.165] helo=ixazon.dynip.com) by chain.digitalkingdom.org with esmtp (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HETgF-0007cZ-Fs for lojban-beginners@lojban.org; Tue, 06 Feb 2007 09:00:40 -0800 Received: from chausie (unknown [192.168.7.4]) by ixazon.dynip.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id BC617CE771 for ; Tue, 6 Feb 2007 12:00:07 -0500 (EST) From: Pierre Abbat To: lojban-beginners@lojban.org Subject: [lojban-beginners] Re: pa pemci Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 11:54:26 -0500 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 References: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7B71@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> In-Reply-To: <1189A858F8918F43BE3F9C7603C73FB4031E7B71@0456-its-exmp01.us.saic.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by Ecartis Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200702061154.26789.phma@phma.optus.nu> X-Spam-Score: -2.2 X-Spam-Score-Int: -21 X-Spam-Bar: -- X-archive-position: 4012 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org Errors-to: lojban-beginners-bounce@lojban.org X-original-sender: phma@phma.optus.nu Precedence: bulk Reply-to: lojban-beginners@lojban.org X-list: lojban-beginners On Tuesday 06 February 2007 07:39, Turniansky, Michael wrote: > I''m guessing from Osmerus eperlanus. But you'd have to ask Pierre, > who invented it. There's no etymology record in the jbovlaste entry. > Not that I care. I just looked for words that rhymed with blanu. I > could have just as easily substituted in merlanu, a whiting. French éperlan, which appears to be the source of the species name. Words beginning "sp" in Romance regularly add an "e" to the beginning in French, Portuguese, and Spanish, then lose the "s" in French. IIRR this word is from Germanic, and would be "sparling" in English. Pierre