{"id":16806,"date":"2018-09-28T17:09:34","date_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:09:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/?p=16806"},"modified":"2018-09-28T17:09:34","modified_gmt":"2018-09-28T16:09:34","slug":"tykki-duw","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=16806","title":{"rendered":"Tykki Duw"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I learnt that a <strong>butterfly<\/strong> in Cornish is a <strong>tykki Duw <\/strong>[t\u026ak\u02d1i&#8217;dy\u02d1\u028a \/ t\u026ak\u02d1i&#8217;di\u02d1\u028a], or literally &#8220;God&#8217;s pretty thing&#8221;. A moth is a <strong>tykki Duw nos<\/strong> or &#8220;God&#8217;s pretty thing of the night&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>The word tykki comes from <em>teg<\/em> (pretty, attractive), and Duw comes from the Proto-Celtic <em>*d\u0113wos<\/em> (god), from the Proto-Indo-European <em>*deyw\u00f3s<\/em> (god), from <em>*dyew-<\/em> (sky, heaven). <\/p>\n<p><a data-flickr-embed=\"true\"  href=\"https:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/9906786@N02\/9540467511\/in\/photolist-fx4oBa-7vuQJY-8sbGxy-ugLBL-29gTu6-dwBiKw-dwcVzg-22gaGd-Ugnq4-bkz1Ld-9u2pdp-aanfR9-c3HsyG-bWATQS-KVH2hT-4sprCW-NQPpt-5vfaiH-2TKtTN-cmT5Wf-5Zcmds-7FW7Gc-TJe3nz-8dAgxv-8dDwyo-7Gep29-ds7MaP-ds7Wvs-dvUhpX-4skpvi-bWnPoP-bABcAG-r9sDb1-32KTme-d5oQtw-4Eqnz-nozWG-2FkyA5-L8m8R-7XXT8K-7vr2Jv-eMM1iq-iGsjS5-6Zp7tE-568EY2-acjGus-8t7cGH-f6Tdbt-8taeWw-6wKPvC\" title=\"Butterfly\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/farm3.staticflickr.com\/2820\/9540467511_d125db58c9_z.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"497\" alt=\"Butterfly\"\/><\/a><script async src=\"\/\/embedr.flickr.com\/assets\/client-code.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Names for butterflies are interesting in other languages as well:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Welsh<\/strong>: gl\u00f6yn byw (glowing ember); i\u00e2r fach yr haf (little hen of the summer); pili-pala; plufyn bach yr haf (little feather of the summer), colomen fyw (lively pigeon); gl\u00f6yn Duw (god&#8217;s ember\/coal); eilir (spring).<\/li>\n<li><strong>Scottish Gaelic<\/strong>: f\u00e9ileagan; dealan-d\u00e9 (god&#8217;s lightning); sglapaid; teine-d\u00e9 (god&#8217;s fire); teillean-d\u00e9 (god&#8217;s bee); tormachan-d\u00e9 (god&#8217;s ptarmigan); dealman-d\u00e9; strainnsear (stranger); gogag<\/li>\n<li><strong>Manx<\/strong>: foillycan, follican<\/li>\n<li><strong>Irish<\/strong>: f\u00e9ileac\u00e1n; guag\u00f3g; uall\u00e1n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Breton<\/strong>: balafenn; barbellig; bobelan; aelig<\/li>\n<li><strong>Swedish<\/strong>: fj\u00e4ril<\/li>\n<li><strong>Danish<\/strong>: sommerfugl (summer bird)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Spanish<\/strong>: mariposa<\/li>\n<li><strong>German<\/strong>: Schmetterling<\/li>\n<li><strong>French<\/strong>: papillon<\/li>\n<li><strong>Italian<\/strong>: farfalla<\/li>\n<li><strong>Russian<\/strong>: \u0431\u0430\u0431\u043e\u0447\u043a\u0430 (babochka)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>What about in other languages?<\/p>\n<p>Sources: <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.cornishdictionary.org.uk\/cornish\/tykki-duw\">Gerlyver Kernewek<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wiktionary.org\/wiki\/tykki\">Wiktionary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/geiriadur.ac.uk\/gpc\/gpc.html\">Geiriadur Prifysgol Cymru<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/geiriaduracademi.org\/\">Geiriadur yr Academi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.faclair.com\/\">Am Faclair Beag<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mannin.info\/Mannin\/fockleyr\/e2m.php\">On-line Manx Dictionary<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arkaevraz.net\/dicobzh\/index.php?ifr=&#038;b_lang=0&#038;b_kw=papillon&#038;b_port=1&#038;b_srch=1&#038;b_mut=1&#038;b_abr=0\">Dictionnaire Favereau<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.bab.la\/dictionary\/\">bab.la<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week I learnt that a butterfly in Cornish is a tykki Duw [t\u026ak\u02d1i&#8217;dy\u02d1\u028a \/ t\u026ak\u02d1i&#8217;di\u02d1\u028a], or literally &#8220;God&#8217;s pretty thing&#8221;. A moth is a tykki Duw nos or &#8220;God&#8217;s pretty thing of the night&#8221;). The word tykki comes from teg (pretty, attractive), and Duw comes from the Proto-Celtic *d\u0113wos (god), from the Proto-Indo-European *deyw\u00f3s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,97,100,104,107,111,116,127,128,10,23,52,56,64,67,77,78],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16806","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-breton","category-cornish","category-danish","category-english","category-etymology","category-french","category-german","category-irish","category-italian","category-language","category-manx","category-russian","category-scottish-gaelic","category-spanish","category-swedish","category-welsh","category-words-and-phrases"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16806","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16806"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16806\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16806"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16806"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16806"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}