Post #3070473
2025-09-09 17:27 UTC
@yvanspijk@toot.community Recently I was wondering about butterfly, Schmetterling, papilion, vlinder, farfalla, mariposa…
These seem all so very unrelated. But are they?
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@yvanspijk@toot.community 2025-09-09 18:03
@fubaroque@mastodon.social Yes, they're all unrelated. Words for things that people don't talk about over long distances are very prone to huge diversity. If you look at old dialect maps, you'll see that often neighbouring villages have completely different words for butterflies and other critters.