query: whales and dolphins vs. pigs and lambs

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There are a large number of terms for whales in the Historical Thesaurus of English

http://libra.englang.arts.gla.ac.uk/historicalthesaurus/

Some of these relate to pigs - sea-pig, hogback, pork-fish.


Best wishes

Christian Kay

On 25 Apr 2008 at 13:53, Alexander Vovin wrote:

Date sent:      	Fri, 25 Apr 2008 13:53:15 +0900
From:           	"Alexander Vovin" <sashavovin at gmail.com>
To:             	histling-l at mailman.rice.edu
Subject:        	[Histling-l] query: whales and dolphins vs. pigs and lambs

> Dear all,
> 
>         Does anyone know about any possible semantic shifts between
> 'doplhin' (or 'whale') to 'lamb' (or 'pig') or vice versa? A friend
> told me that he vaguely remembers that some language calls whales
> 'pigs of the sea', but he could not recollect which one.
>         I will be grateful for any information. Thank you,
> 
> Best wishes,
> 
> Sasha
> 
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> Studies, Kyoto & Professor of East Asian Languages University of
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