Evgeny Sklyanin wrote:
On 7/16/05, Pierre Abbat <phma@phma.hn.org> wrote:Can it be called {kalmari xinmo}? And can a squid pen be called {kalmari penbi}? Squids have pen (their internal shell/skeleton) and ink, but they don't write.I would use {cinta} rather then {xinmo}
{cinta} looks good. Squids don't paint with it, but the place structure doesn't imply that they do.
I just googled and found that "calamari" is from Latin "calamarius", which means "of or pertaining to a reed pen", or as a noun, "ink".
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