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muckefuck ([personal profile] muckefuck) wrote2009-02-23 09:47 am
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WotD: woodpecker

  1. der Specht
  2. de specht
  3. el carpinterito
  4. el picot
  5. le pic
  6. taradr y coed
  7. an cnagaire
  8. 딱따구리
  9. 啄木鳥 zhuómùniǎo
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[identity profile] foodpoisoningsf.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 06:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Senza picchio, amico?

[identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Nient'altro ch'un cappone per questo po'ro gazzacchione!

[identity profile] gorkabear.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
El pájaro carpintero :)

And I didn't know the Catalan one! Look what I found:
http://www.xtec.net/~aalas/ocells/

[identity profile] itchwoot.livejournal.com 2009-02-23 10:46 pm (UTC)(link)
Holzi Holzpicker :D
ext_78: A picture of a plush animal. It looks a bit like a cross between a duck and a platypus. (Default)

[identity profile] pne.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 09:08 am (UTC)(link)
Is the Korean (or the first two syllables thereof, at least) onomatopoeic in origin? Something like 'ttag-ttag bird'?

[identity profile] muckefuck.livejournal.com 2009-02-24 06:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Certainly looks that way. Martin lists 딱딱 as an onomatopoeia for "with repeated bangs (crashes, cracks, thuds, smashes)". It spawns a whole family of related sound-symbolic words including 딱다그르르 and 딱다글딱다글, either of which could be the basis for 딱따구리.
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