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[jbovlaste] Re: crab



WIth no surprise, the word "kangre'o" is very similar to the latin "cancer" (which is also the name of the zodiacal sign) and many Italians would be able to relate it to "granchio" (or cancro, the zodiacal sign again) I suspect that other Latin-based languages might do the same.

I would have no clue on what a "braxiura" could be.

On , Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.optus.nu> wrote:
> On Thursday 16 September 2010 11:55:23 A. PIEKARSKI wrote:
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> > Why not stick to something generally recognizable
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> > or based on Linnaean?
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> > fu'ivla type III:    juknrbrakiura
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> > fu'ivla type IV:    barkura/brakiura (yes, they probably need to be
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> > massaged).
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> "braxiura" (I prefer the 'x' since it's from a Greek chi) is perfectly valid.
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> jbofi'e seems to think it's a lujvo (it translates it as "being big ??(s)"),
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> but it's not.
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> I think the set of people who know the scientific name of crabs is much
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> smaller than the set of people who know the Spanish or Arabic name.
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> Pierre
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