[lojban-beginners] Re: pa pemci

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

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