From phma@oltronics.net Fri Jul 20 15:03:12 2001 Return-Path: X-Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com X-Apparently-To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_2_0); 20 Jul 2001 22:03:12 -0000 Received: (qmail 6446 invoked from network); 20 Jul 2001 22:02:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.26) by m8.onelist.org with QMQP; 20 Jul 2001 22:02:29 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO neofelis.ixazon.lan) (24.93.81.230) by mta1 with SMTP; 20 Jul 2001 22:02:28 -0000 Received: by neofelis.ixazon.lan (Postfix, from userid 500) id B1BE13C55B; Fri, 20 Jul 2001 18:02:26 -0400 (EDT) Reply-To: phma@oltronics.net To: lojban@yahoogroups.com Subject: Re: [lojban] Re: zunle moklu finpe Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2001 17:45:24 -0400 X-Mailer: KMail [version 1.0.29.2] Content-Type: text/plain References: <9ja887+qvo1@eGroups.com> In-Reply-To: <9ja887+qvo1@eGroups.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Message-Id: <01072018022602.01041@neofelis> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: phma@ixazon.dynip.com From: Pierre Abbat On Fri, 20 Jul 2001, A.W.T. wrote: >Didn't find the "zuo2 kou3 yu3" (left-eyed fish) in my sources: a pretty mo= >dern word for "Flunder" seems to be something The middle character is mouth (a square) not eye (a stack of three rectangles). "zuo" and "kou" are both in low tone. >Oh, wait a minute, here I found a bit on those fish (German and Latin): >Plattfische/Pleuronectidae: Or Butt, and I've seen that word in (I think) the OED too. >Steinbutt/Scophtalmus maximus: left Turbot, I think. Not to be confused with burbot. >Heilbutt/Hippoglossus hippoglossus: right Halibut. >Scholle or Goldbutt/Pleuronectes platessa: (mostly) right I'm not sure I can plaice that one :) >Kliesche/Pleuronectes limanda: right >Flunder/Pleuronectes flesus: right or left (!) >Seezunge/Solea solea: right >Rot- or Hundszunge/Cynoglossus cynoglossus: right Both the German and the Greek mean dog's tongue, but I'm not sure what fish that is. >(These are all I found - no Polynesian "polgosu" or drata mlafi'e among the= >m!) Polgosu is my stage-4 fu'ivla for Hippoglossus. phma