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Nabokov's "Butterfly" might be "Tximeleta"
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Jansy Mello writes:
Nabokov's "butterfly" might be: " Tximeleta"* ("From him I learned, and
have preserved ever since in a glass cell of my memory, that "butterfly"
in the Basque language is misericoletea—or at least it sounded so (among
the seven words I have found in dictionaries the closest approach is
micheletea)." Cf. The Stories of V.Nabokov, "First Love"
After googling, Wikipedia offered me other options:
Tximeleta: mitxeleta, mitxoleta, pinpilinpauxa, pinpirin, inguma,
kalaputxia, txiribiri, tximirrika, jainkoilo, txoleta, sorgin-oilo edo
mitxirrika ...
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* From an informal Brazilian site, translations of "Borboleta":
alemão - SCHMETTERLING
árabe - FARASH
basco - TXIMELETA
cebuano da Filipinas - KABA-KABA
croata - LEPTIR
esloveno - METULJ
espanhol - MARIPOSA
estoniano - LIBLIKAS
finlandês - PERHONEN
francês - PAPPILLON
grego - PETALOUDA
havaiano - PULELEHUA
hebraico - PAPAR
hindi da Índia - TITLI
holandês - VLINDER
húngaro - PILLANGÓ
inglês - BUTTERFLY
islandês - FIDRILDI
italiano - FARFALLA
japonês - CHOCHO
lídiche - BABELE
mandarim da China - HU-DIÉ
marathi da Índia - FULPAKHARU
polonês - MOTYL
romeno - FLUTURE
russo - BÁBOTSCHKA
sueco - FJÄRIL
tagalog da Filipinas - DANH TÙ
tupi-guarani - PANAPANÁ
turco - KELEBEK
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Nabokov's "butterfly" might be: " Tximeleta"* ("From him I learned, and
have preserved ever since in a glass cell of my memory, that "butterfly"
in the Basque language is misericoletea—or at least it sounded so (among
the seven words I have found in dictionaries the closest approach is
micheletea)." Cf. The Stories of V.Nabokov, "First Love"
After googling, Wikipedia offered me other options:
Tximeleta: mitxeleta, mitxoleta, pinpilinpauxa, pinpirin, inguma,
kalaputxia, txiribiri, tximirrika, jainkoilo, txoleta, sorgin-oilo edo
mitxirrika ...
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* From an informal Brazilian site, translations of "Borboleta":
alemão - SCHMETTERLING
árabe - FARASH
basco - TXIMELETA
cebuano da Filipinas - KABA-KABA
croata - LEPTIR
esloveno - METULJ
espanhol - MARIPOSA
estoniano - LIBLIKAS
finlandês - PERHONEN
francês - PAPPILLON
grego - PETALOUDA
havaiano - PULELEHUA
hebraico - PAPAR
hindi da Índia - TITLI
holandês - VLINDER
húngaro - PILLANGÓ
inglês - BUTTERFLY
islandês - FIDRILDI
italiano - FARFALLA
japonês - CHOCHO
lídiche - BABELE
mandarim da China - HU-DIÉ
marathi da Índia - FULPAKHARU
polonês - MOTYL
romeno - FLUTURE
russo - BÁBOTSCHKA
sueco - FJÄRIL
tagalog da Filipinas - DANH TÙ
tupi-guarani - PANAPANÁ
turco - KELEBEK
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