From Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Sun Apr 01 09:47:23 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_1_0_1); 1 Apr 2001 16:47:22 -0000 Received: (qmail 19485 invoked from network); 1 Apr 2001 16:47:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by l10.egroups.com with QMQP; 1 Apr 2001 16:47:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ck.egroups.com) (10.1.2.83) by mta1 with SMTP; 1 Apr 2001 16:47:22 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: Ti@fa-kuan.muc.de Received: from [10.1.2.33] by ck.egroups.com with NNFMP; 01 Apr 2001 16:47:22 -0000 Date: Sun, 01 Apr 2001 16:47:17 -0000 To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: Insects Message-ID: <9a7m2l+45l7@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <0104010733160N.00929@neofelis> User-Agent: eGroups-EW/0.82 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Length: 864 X-Mailer: eGroups Message Poster X-Originating-IP: 193.149.49.79 From: "A.W.T." X-Yahoo-Message-Num: 6355 --- In lojban@y..., Pierre Abbat wrote: > I'm working on words for insects. So far I've come up with these: > > tsanura: silverfish > djesfani: mayfly > bisycinki: ice bug > lankysfani: dragonfly > pipyjalra: grasshopper > ga'arcinki: stick insect > ja'unrebycinki: earwig > blusfani: mosquito > spacivla: aphid > pimtoldi: moth > batkytoldi: butterfly > > I'm stumped on "bug". Any suggestions? (Aphids are actually bugs, not lice.) djesfani: mayfly; maybe better {bradjesfani}, djesfani: "ephemeridae" (mi poi fipkatpre cu stidi) pimtoldi: moth or ctetoldi: moth (for the bigger ones) batkytoldi: butterfly (???) skatoldi: butterfly dortoldi: butterfly xlapancivla: bug bluxlapancivla: bed bug BTW, any idea for 'thrush' (German: "Drossel", Chinese: "Hua4 Mei2/huahmei" - "Painted Eyebrow" i.e. the grey thrush) co'o mi'e .aulun.