Re: [romanceconlang] Duck, duck, goose. Oh, no, I got stork.

From: Barry Garcia (barry_garcia@csumb.edu)
Date: Mon May 19 2003 - 08:22:33 EST

romanceconlang@yahoogroups.com writes:
>Where almost the whole set shares the same VL root
>with only Spanish haveing the CL term and one(?)
>borrowing shared by Galician, Portugues and
>Romanian(?) and borrowed into Romany.
>
>Is there any empiracle reasoning which can be applied
>to htese various cases?

Pato seems to be much more common for duck this side of the world than
ánade. In fact, i hadn't heard of that word for it until just now. The
same with ánsar. The more common term i hear here is ganso.

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