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by Matthew Rabuzzi Cupertino, CA. U.S.A.
- Butterfly Etymology
- Moth Etymology
- Caterpillar Etymology
- Related Words
Here's a little bagatelle (or, very imprecisely, a bugatelle!) of entomology etymology. I've long been fascinated by the large variety of distinct words for "butterfly" in various Indo-European languages. Here is my butterfly collection, which I hope will be of more than "e-vanessa-nt" interest.
| "Butterfly" als Farbe: | - #c4a43d - Moderate Greenish Yellow |
| "Butterfly Blue" als Farbe: | - #4285b4 - Brilliant Blue |
| "Butterfly Blue" als Farbe: | - #00538a - Strong Blue |
| "Butterfly Yellow" als Farbe: | - #ffdc33 - Brilliant Greenish Yellow |
| "Butterfly Yellow" als Farbe: | - #ffde5a - Light Greenish Yellow |
Butterfly Pea Flower
Clitoria ternatea
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Other Languages:
- Malaysia: bunga telang
- Thailand: anjan
Alberta Butterflies
ByThe Provincial Museum of Alberta 1995
- C. D. Bird
- G.J. Hilchie
- N.G. Kondla
- E.M. Pike
- F.A.H. Sperling
Introductory Chapters include:Alberta Bufferflies is the first comprehensive guide and reference to the butterflies of the province. Life-size colour photographs complement the descriptions of every species and subspecies of butterfly known or expected to occur in Alberta. Full colour pictorial keys assist the novice and expert alike in identifying any butterflies encountered in the province. Each species account includes habitat requirements, life history, and distribution information. Colour maps illustrate species ranges in North America and confirmed records from Alberta. The main flight periods as well as earliest and latest flight records are illustrated graphically for quick reference. A section on etymology describes the origin of the sometimes ponderous scientific names of each species.
- History of butterfly collectors in alberta
- Butterfly gardening in Alberta
- Butterfly collecting
- Morphology
- Systematics
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I.T.C. Centre d'enseignement interactif A.S.B.L. ("Méthode Butterfly")
2001 The Interactive Learning Centre offers courses, cultural activities and language training courses to a vast public, including children, adolescents and adults, using the interactive method known as "Butterfly".This poetic appellation reflects the project's structured approach involving interactive exchanges between teacher and learner, learner and learner, and learner and teacher, recalling the flight of the butterfly. The content of the courses varies depending on the age and education of the participants; the Interactive Learning Centre has developed its own syllabus and provides pedagogic training to the graduate teachers it employs. Participants are taught in groups or individually, while the courses are held during the day or the evening in various school institutions or in the framework of extracurricular activities linked to sport, music, theatre, circus, and art classes.
3. Château de Goulaine
Vineyard, museum, butterfly collection/Haute Goulaine, France
Founded: 1000
(E?)(L?) http://chateau.goulaine.online.fr/
The castle, owned by the Goulaine family, houses a rare butterfly collection in addition to a museum. It hosts various functions, including weddings. Wine is available for sale at the castle’s vineyards.
"IRON BUTTERFLY"
The band wanted a name that sounded heavy and beautiful at the same time. Trivia: Their biggest hit was "In A Gadda Da Vida", which was originally called "In The Garden of Eden". The singer was so trashed on LSD one rehearsal that it came out "In A Gadda Da Vida", and the band decided that was a better name for the song.
Welcome to the fourth issue of Cultural Entomology Digest. This issue focuses on butterfly and moth cultural entomological references. Butterflies are perhaps the most popular group of all insects and cary symbolic meaning for almost every human culture. Their general beauty and harmless demeanor allow many individuals to perceive this group in a positive light when compared to most other insect groups.
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Butterfly
"Butterfly" singt sich irgendwie leichter als "Schmetterling" - deswegen kommt dieser internationale Klassiker gleich mehrsprachig daher. Danyel Gerard blieb zwar damit so etwas wie ein "One-Hit-Wonder", belegte aber 1971 immerhin ganze 14 Wochen lang Platz 1 der Singlecharts. Durch die mehrsprachige Version kann man hier sogar von einem "eurovisionären" Hit sprechen.
Butterfly
by Gerald Musinsky
A universal Native America symbol. In the Apache Bear Dance they entice girls from the underworld. It figures prominently in the Hopi migration myth, Honon nyamu. Butterflies are created by the Zuni Paiyatemu playing a flute. Ajille [Navaho] disguises himself as one, and serves as hero and origin tales. Butterflies are also linked (minor motifs) to certain Thunder Bird narratives.
Imelda Marcos
Political Relative
Imelda Marcos was once the 'Steel Butterfly,' the beautiful wife and confidante of Philippine dictator Ferdinand Marcos.
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Apparently the German word for butterfly is "milchdieb," which translates as "milk thief." Evidently there was a theory in the Middle Ages that the little critters steal milk and butter, a myth possibly based on their light, colorful wings and delicate appearance. Or perhaps they really did steal milk and butter. It's not impossible.
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[Q] From David Powell: “Could the word butterfly, which has no obvious connection with butter (outside of its name), possibly be an ancient corruption of flutter by, which is exactly what the creature does? I can imagine a child mispronouncing it thusly and the result sticking in our language.”
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I find the figurative "Ohrwurm" (German) at Google Groups from 1991, the appropriate English "earworm" from 1993.
Der Ohrwurm, des -es, plur. die -würmer.
1) Eine Art Käfer, dessen Schwanz mit einer Zange versehen ist, welcher sich auf faulen Standen, Pflanzen und in der Erde aufhält, und welchen man fälschlich in dem Bedachte hat, daß er den Schlafenden gern in die Ohren krieche; "Forficula Auricularia L." "Zangenkäfer", "Ohrkäfer", "Ohrhöhler", "Öhrling", Nieders. "Ohrworm", "Gaffeltange", in der Schweiz "Ohrenmittel", "Mittel", von "Made". So freundlich als ein Ohrwurm oder Ohrwürmchen, im gemeinen Leben, weil dieser Käfer im Gehen viele schlangenförmige, dem Ansehen nach freundliche Bewegungen macht. Könnte ein Ohrwürmchen geschmeidiger seyn? Less.
2) Auch eine Art Asseln, welche gleichfalls einen getheilten zangenförmigen Schwanz hat; "Scolopendra Forficata L." führet den Nahmen des Ohrwurmes.
3) Bey den Jägern ist der Ohrwurm, ohne Plural, eine "Krankheit an den Ohren der Jagdhunde", welche von einer scharfen Feuchtigkeit herrühret, die ihnen die Ohrenwund frisset.
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Da die beyden ersten Arten Ohrwürmer, den neuern Erfahrungen zu Folge, die Ohren der Menschen nicht mehr aufsuchen als ein jedes anderes Insekt, so ist sehr wahrscheinlich, daß sie ihren Nahmen von ihrem zangenförmigen, einem "Öhre" nicht unähnlichen Schwanze haben; ( S. "Öhr" und "Ohr" 2. 2). Die Unkunde der wahren Bedeutung ihres Nahmens hat denn gemacht, daß man ihn so gut zu erklären gesucht, als man konnte, und dieses Insect für den gefährlichsten Feind des Ohres ausgab.
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Die Redensart, "so freundlich als ein Ohrwurm oder Ohrwürmchen", ist daher entstanden, weil dieser Käfer im Gehen viele schlangenförmige dem Ansehen nach freundliche Bewegungen macht.
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3) Bey den Jägern ist der Ohrwurm oder Ohrenwurm, eine Krankheit an den Ohren der Jagdhunde, welche von einer scharfen Feuchtigkeit herrührt, die ihnen die Ohren wund frißt.
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Word Spy has posted a 12/22/1987 article from The Whole Earth Review, talking about Ohrwurms in the figurative sense, so it seems unlikely that the English term could have predated the German term.
... I should note that most authorities feel that the "gull" in "gullible" is not a "seagull" (= "Möwe"), but comes from an earlier sense of the word, meaning a "young bird" of any species. And young birds, as you seem to have discovered, are easy to fool. ...
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All of these are unlikely given the early metaphorical uses of cat and dog to signify something noisy and violent. The most likely explanation is the simplest. The noise and violence of a storm is the metaphorical equivalent of a cat and dog fight.
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"Oxen" is the only true survival in Mod.Eng. of the O.E. weak plural.
"Oxbow" "semicircular bend in a river" is first recorded 1797, Amer.Eng. (New England), in ref. to the shape of the piece of wood which forms the collar for an ox yoke (so called from 1368).
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The stormy petrel. So named, according to tradition, from the Italian Petrello (little Peter), in allusion to St. Peter, who walked on the sea.
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Albatrosses, Petrels & Shearwaters
Shearwaters And Petrels Antarctic Giant Petrel | Audubon's Shearwater | Bermuda Petrel | Black-capped Petrel | Black-vented Shearwater | Black-winged Petrel | Bonin Petrel | Buller's Shearwater | Bulwer's Petrel | Cape Verde Petrel | Cape Verde Shearwater | Christmas Shearwater | Cook's Petrel | Cory's Shearwater | Fiji Petrel | Flesh-footed Shearwater | Galapagos Petrel | Great-winged Petrel | Greater Shearwater | Hawaiian Petrel | Herald Petrel | Jouanin's Petrel | Juan Fernandez Petrel | Kermadec Petrel | Little Shearwater | Manx Shearwater | Mottled Petrel | Murphy's Petrel | Northern Fulmar | Parkinson's Petrel | Phoenix Petrel | Pink-footed Shearwater | Short-tailed Shearwater | Sooty Shearwater | Southern Fulmar | Stejneger's Petrel | Streaked Shearwater | Tahiti Petrel | Townsend's Shearwater | Wedge-tailed Shearwater | White-necked Petrel
"Petrel", ein Nahme des Sturmvogels, Procellaria pelagica Linn.
"Petrelle", ein Feuerwerksstück, welches eigentlich eine Pastillienhülse, und ungefähr 1 Fuß lang ist. Ehe man solche mit gekörntem Pulver füllet, drückt man sie, aber nicht so stark, breit zusammen, bis auf die Gegend, wo man den Trichter hineinsteckt, durch welchen das Kornpulver laufen muß. Wenn sie nun gefüllet ist, so legt man sie auf den Tisch, und rollet mit einem runden Holze darüber, damit das gekörnte Pulver zerdrückt werde; alsdann beuget man sie nicht in die Runde zusammen, sondern leget sie in einen Zickzack, oder schlangenweise, und bindet sie in der Mitte mit einem Faden fest auf einander. In das umgebundene Ende steckt man eine Stapine oder Communication, zündet sie an, und wirft sie auf den Boden, auf welchem sie herum springt, platzt und kracht.
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In 1686, a gentleman's magazine described a good way to fool a hound and prolong a foxhunt: drag a dead cat across the trail to mask the fox's scent. If no cat was available drag a red herring, because a smoked and salted red herring's odour will also mask the fox's scent.
Therefore, a fake clue (set with the intention of deliberately deceiving someone) is called a "red herring".
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There’s a proverb which dates from medieval times: "neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring", meaning in essence "neither one thing nor another"; "not fitting into any known category". The full sense of this now rather opaque saying is: "neither fresh fish for the clergy, nor meat for the mass of people, nor red herrings for the poor".
In the half dozen books on aspects of the history of fox hunting I have searched out, there is not one reference to the use of a red herring to lay a false scent.
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Because the scent was so strong and familiar to the dogs, farmers were wont to drag a red herring around their fields to divert the howling hounds and stamping steeds of the fox hunt away from their crops.
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The word "caribou" derives from the Micmac word "galipu" and entered English in the 1660s. Presumably, English-speaking hunters in North America adopted this native American word without realizing that the species already had a perfectly good English name in "reindeer".
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Etymology: Today's word "rentier" was imported from Old Norse "hreindýri" from "hreinn" = "reindeer", the more usual name for the animal + "dýr" = "deer". Also Swedish "rendjur" or just "ren", Da. "rensdyr", Dutch "rendier", German "Rentier".
The Middle English word "deer", referred to all animals, as does its German cousin "Tier" = "animal".
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Old Norwegian and Old Icelandic "hreinn" = "reindeer" comes from the same PIE root as "horn".
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"Reindeer" first appeared in Middle English (as "rayne-dere") way back around 1400 (if not earlier, records from the period being a bit spotty, of course). Even though the word is very old, the second element is definitely our modern word "deer". The "rein" part derives from the Old Norse "hreinn", which was simply the Norse word for the animal. So the combination "reindeer" actually amounts to "reindeer deer".
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Who are those last two reindeer? "Dunder" and "Blixem"? Aren't they supposed to be "Donner" and "Blitzen"?
The story of how two reindeer named "Dunder" and "Blixem" became "Donner" and "Blitzen" is a complicated and confusing one, in part because a good deal of mystery remains about the origins of the poem that named them, "A Visit from Saint Nicholas." We'll do our best here to trace the history of how the poem - and the names of two reindeer - changed over time.
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Claim: The character "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was created for the Montgomery Ward group of department stores.
Status: True.
What is Save our Squirrels?
Save our Squirrels is the largest single-species conservation project taking place in the UK at present. Launched in July 2006, the project has the remit to deliver red squirrel conservation, information, and access projects in Northumberland, Cumbria, North Yorkshire, and North Merseyside.
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The stormy petrel. So named, according to tradition, from the Italian Petrello (little Peter), in allusion to St. Peter, who walked on the sea.
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The Elusive Stormy Petrel (19 January 1997)
... The term "stormy petrel" in general usage Anm.: als "schlechtes Zeichen") has come to refer to a harbinger of trouble; perhaps people believed that the bird was seen just before a storm. ...
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The complete stormy petrels list, categorized by part of speech, is now available in HTML format. If you have new entries to add, send them to me. And let me know if you think something on the list doesn't belong there.
The Taxonomized Register of English "Stormy Petrels" (Last modified 6/3/97)
Concept and registry by Elliott Moreton. Items provided by Elliott Moreton except where otherwise noted. Page maintained by Jed Hartman.
Sooner or later I'll mark each of the petrels as "first-tier," "second-tier," or "joke," as defined by Elliott on the comments page. In the mean time, you'll have to figure out which category each item is in on your own.
A question mark next to an item indicates doubt as to its petrelosity.
NOUN requiring MODIFIER...
- All PETRELS are STORMY (Except, of course, those that aren't. This item remains on the list for historical reasons.)
- All SHRIFT is SHORT
- All DUDGEON is HIGH
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- MODIFIER requiring NOUN
- SUBJECT requiring VERB
- DIRECT OBJECT requiring VERB
- MODIFIER requiring VERB
- VERB requiring SUBJECT
- VERB requiring DIRECT OBJECT (& OBLIQUE OBJECT(S))
- VERB requiring ANAPHORIC OBJECT
- VERB requiring MODIFIER
- NOUN requiring COORDINATE NOUN
- VERB requiring COORDINATE VERB
- ADVERB requiring COORDINATE ADVERB
- ADJECTIVE requiring COORDINATE ADJECTIVE
- "VERB" requiring INFINITIVAL COMPLEMENT
- Candidate Petrels
- Former Petrels
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"Stormy petrel" is an alteration of earlier "pitteral", probably so named in allusion to "St. Peter's walking on the sea", from the fact that the bird flies close to the water in order to feed on surface-swimming organisms and ship's refuse; called "stormy" because in a storm the birds surround a ship to catch small organisms which rise to the surface of the rough seas; when the storm ceases they are no longer seen.
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