hippocampi

[Bill Palmer]

Dear all

I can identify seahorse terms in two New Georgia group (North-West
Solomonic) languages: Roviana (Waterhouse's 1949 dictionary) and Marovo
(Hviding, E, 1990, "Draft environmental dictionary, Marovo Lagoon.")

Roviana:

mimila basioto "a species of Hippocampus or Sea-horse"

Marovo:

kokonini "Seahorse; Hippopus spp."

Bill Palmer
Pacific Languages Unit
USP

> ----------
> From: 	Phil Quick[SMTP:Phil.Quick at anu.edu.au]
> Reply To: 	Phil.Quick at anu.edu.au
> Sent: 	Monday, May 10, 1999 10:49 AM
> To: 	 AUSTRONESIAN LANGUAGES AND LINGUISTICS
> Subject: 	seahorse in Pendau (Sulawesi)
>
> Dear interested friends,
>
> One of my special interests is in fish names (as a linguist).  I have
> collected two fish names for seahorse in Pendau (of the
> Tomini-tolitoli
> language group in Central Sulawesi, Indonesia).
>
> 1) pompombadi  'Hippocampus sp.'
>
> 2) ajaran dagat (a new synoym of <pompombadi>--as this is literally
> 'horse
> sea', transparentally from Indonesian 'kuda laut')
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Phil Quick
>