[jbovlaste] Re: carapace

[Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu>]

On Sunday 23 May 2010 08:43:24 tijlan wrote:
> For this:
>
>  x1 is a carapace (a dorsal section of the exoskeleton or shell) of animal
> x2.
>
>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carapace
>  http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/carapace
>
> Note that a seashell (a non-carapace) too is an exoskeleton. So we want
> something more specific than {calku}, {bogygai}, etc.
>
> I have {galcalku | galtu zei calku} in mind. What do you think?

Any of the pairs galcalku/dizycalku, gapcalku/nitcalku, rixycalku/befcalku 
would make sense (the second in each being "plastron"), though the last 
doesn't sound quite right to me as "betfu" contrasts with "cutne". All of 
them have a third argument "of material x3".

They could also be used for sternites and tergites (ventral and dorsal 
sections of arthropod shells). Probably the carapace (all the tergites of a 
whole tagma fused together) should be distinguished from individual tergites.

Pierre
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