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Page 1 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 > Topic Options #4935 - 08/03/00 01:14 PM animal adjectives william enthusiast Registered: 07/12/00 Posts: 200 i'm not sure if this is the right place to start this one, but i'm really interested in animal adjectives in english. words like ursine, bovine, aquiline. i'd really love to hear from the resident geniuses - geniii? - who can add to my quotidian knowledge. Top #4936 - 08/03/00 01:49 PM Re: animal adjectives emanuela enthusiast Registered: 03/16/00 Posts: 315 Loc: Italy - Perugia is a town with... Equine, feline... I don't know how usual they sound in English... An American man - trying to speak Italian - once said to me that English is two parallel languages; for a word there are often two forms - for example, speed and velocity - and the less usual form is that coming from latin... Do you agree? Ciao Emanuela Top #4937 - 08/03/00 02:40 PM Re: animal adjectives Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 11578 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky i'm really interested in animal adjectives in english.--- Avian't ewe herd of simian-larities, Deer? Top #4938 - 08/03/00 04:33 PM Re: animal adjectives tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass I have a resource book somewhere which has a whole list of these, but here are a few that have stuck with me: anserine - characteristic of a goose; (by extension) silly hircine - characteristic of a goat, esp its odor vulpine - characteristic of a fox; foxy, crafty limacine - characteristic of a slug and, in a stretch, sphingine - sphinx-like in character Top #4939 - 08/04/00 11:38 AM Re: animal adjectives william enthusiast Registered: 07/12/00 Posts: 200 you have a resource book? you ARE a resource book! wish i was one tsu. without throwing me in the YCLIP basket (cos i tried), is there one for giraffe? Top #4940 - 08/04/00 12:25 PM Re: animal adjectives tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass >is there one for giraffe? sure... giraffine (or giraffish) Top #4941 - 08/04/00 07:00 PM Re: animal adjectives william enthusiast Registered: 07/12/00 Posts: 200 thanks tsuwm! and i was hoping for something i couldn't pronounce, let alone remember! Top #4942 - 08/06/00 04:16 AM Re: animal adjectives Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta Leslie Dunkling's "Guiness Book of Curious Words" gives a list of -ine adjectives. He doesn't mention anything for giraffes, but does give lots of others, e.g.: bombycine, didelphine, soricine, trochilidine, and turdine (which seems most unfair, somehow). Bingley _________________________ Bingley Top #4943 - 08/06/00 02:01 PM Re: animal adjectives tsuwm Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/03/00 Posts: 10463 Loc: this too shall pass >turdine (which seems most unfair, somehow). yes, unfair to thrushes everywhere! Top #4944 - 08/07/00 01:01 AM Re: animal adjectives Bingley Carpal Tunnel Registered: 04/09/00 Posts: 3065 Loc: Jakarta but not perhaps to thrush. or boom boom as a certain vulpine used to say. My apologies to non-British readers who will have no idea what I'm talking about. Bingley _________________________ Bingley Top Page 1 of 9 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 > Previous Topic Index Next Topic Preview Hop to: General Topics ------   Information and announcements   Q&A about words   Wordplay and fun   Words and languages in schools   Miscellany   Weekly Themes   Looking for (writers, speakers, ...) (Old) Weekly themes. 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