Fwd: FW: dictionary

[Salikoko Mufwene]

Any lexicographer out there that can answer's this other lexicographer's 
question?

Sali.

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Subject:        FW: dictionary
Date:   Sun, 8 Apr 2012 08:42:01 +0100
From:   Pavle Pavlovic <ppavlovicc at hotmail.com>
To:     <s-mufwene at uchicago.edu>



Dear professor  Mufwene,
  my name is Pavle and I am currently working on a Serbian-English 
dictionary. One word gives me plenty of hard times. The word "smuvati" 
in Serbian - which means to "seduce". Well, this word being derived from 
the word spiders, it renders the meaning which suggests of web, flea, 
spiders,.
It means that seduction  is, at least at the level of suggestion, 
compared with the knitting of web around a spider's victim. Is there 
something similar in  English? Something that hits the meaning 
colourfully!  I am being at great pains to solve it and your suggestion 
would be of much help to me and my colleagues.  If there is no such word 
English, perhaps some idiom might work and do the job.

Sincerely,


Pavle Pavloviæ

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