Translation of Flora/Fauna

[nataliek at UALBERTA.CA]

Cumbersome, but effective - I used this method when writing an article  
on folk medicine and trying to find the equivalent of Russian and  
Ukrainian medicinal plants.

Take the Russian word.  Look up the Latin equivalent.  From the Latin  
equivalent, go to the English word.

Natalie Kononenko


Quoting Paul Richardson <paulr at RUSSIANLIFE.NET>:

> Working on a translation and my Russian editor was surprisingly unable
> to come up with English equivalents of the following (I will use
> transcription to avoid encoding issues):
>
> Two types of birds:
>
> nochnaya ptitsa-kovyrun
> ptitsa-chernukhi
>
> One plant:
>
> solyonenkaya travka
>
> Any help would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Paul Richardson
> Russian Life magazine
> PO Box 567
> Montpelier, VT 05601-0567
> 802.223.4955
> www.russianlife.com
>
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Natalie Kononenko
Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography
University of Alberta
Modern Languages and Cultural Studies
200 Arts Building
Edmonton, Alberta, Canada T6G 2E6
Phone: 780-492-6810
Web: http://www.arts.ualberta.ca/uvp/

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