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From: christer@kuling.UUCP (Christer Johansson)
Newsgroups: net.nlang
Subject: Re: names of animal categories
Message-ID: <815@kuling.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 14:59:00 EDT
Article-I.D.: kuling.815
Posted: Wed Sep 18 14:59:00 1985
Date-Received: Wed, 25-Sep-85 07:44:58 EDT
References: <791@ihlpa.UUCP>
Reply-To: christer@kuling.UUCP (Christer Johansson)
Followup-To: net.nlang
Organization: (Studying CS at) the University of Uppsala, Sweden
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Summary: Word for animals are unrelated in otherwise closely related languages

In article <791@ihlpa.UUCP> of Wed, 11-Sep-85 20:42:38 GMT
humbert@ihlpa.UUCP (shachter) writes:
>I am interesting in knowing the English words for various categories
>of animals.
>The following chart should explain itself:

The table's included below with Swedish tranlsations. As you can see There's
only a few words that show any relations to their English counterparts. (This
seams to hold for most animals, flowers, trees etc.) I believe this holds for
Swedish,German and German,English as well, but am not shore about it.
Does anyone on the net know why this is? Have all 'Germanic' languages
developed their own words for animals, flowers etc and been unable to
influence each other in any higher degree? 

I'd like too extend the table with other languages, so please mail me your
translations and I'll summarize to the net. 

>   Generic       Adult      Adult     Castrated      Child     Child    Child
>Single;Plural    Male       Female      Male        Generic    Male     Female

>Horse ; Horses   Stallion   Mare      Gelding          ???      Colt     Filly
 Ha:st ; Ha:star  Hingst     Ma:rr     Valack 	      Fo:l	 ???      ???

> ??? ; Cattle    Bull       Cow       Ox  Steer  Calf        ???      ???
  Kreatur;Kreatur  Tjur	     Ko	       Oxe(?)	      Kalv	 Tjurkalv Kviga

>Swine ; Swine    Boar       Sow       Barrow         Pig         ???      ???
 Svin  ; Svin     Galt	     Sugga	???	      Kulting	  ???	   ???
      
 Gris  ; Grisar

>Goat ; Goats      ???        ???       ???           Kid         ???      ???
 Get  ; Getter    Bock	     ???	???	      ???	  ???	   ???

>Sheep ; Sheep    Ram        Ewe       Wether         Lamb        ???      ???
 Fa:r  ; Fa:r	  Bagge	     Tacka	???	      Lamm	  ???	   ???
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