How at Bakkum,at the Dutch coast, a Nahuatl-word resounded...

3  girls, about age 12, with a dip- net near a pool in the dunes, catching amphibian lifeforms.
One of them shouts at her father:
"Hey Dad! Look here a... whatyoucallitagain..  axolotl or something.!!"
She points at the baby watersalamander in the bucket.

The axolotl is a kind of salamander that lives in Mexico and the US.
Being mature, it still looks like a baby-salamander....(so it doesn't undergo the normal salamander-metamorphosis, but then again : apparently normal isn't so normal)

from:  atl (-water)   and   xolotl (-servant),  servant of the water..

         birdbone & mammothivory :












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40,000 years ago: Live, from the cave — flutists!

ONOMATOPOEIATIME
I don't care much (in fact: not at all) about the Eurovisionsongfestival, but it generates some nice onomatopoeias !

! ding-a-dongcomplex   -ding-a-dong being the name of  the Dutch entry of the Eurovision-                                          SongFestival of 1975,  the last one to win (hence:complex)

Translation of the comment below:"And dong is a nice Frisian word for muckwater, liquid shit"

MINORITY LANGUAGE IN THE NEWSPAPER : JOUAL

( "Jack Kerouac was raised speaking Joual until age 6")

Joual  is the name of a dialect (some call it 'slang',some call it 'sociolect'- alanguage spoken by a certain social class or group) of Canadian French in Quebec.

It's name is derived from how the Frech 'cheval' is pronounced. 

A nice English loanword in Joual : enfirouaper   ( = cheat, from: in fur wrap,sometimes the furtraders cheated by wrapping cardboard in their furbales)

Today a nice rainy sunday, a nice day to read in a lexicon, initiated by reading this :

                                                                                                      lexicon-time!

So,  I will share with you, sitting at my desk, with a view at the freshgreen robiniatrees in my street,listening to a compilation of worldmusic ('chinnchinn"!), some old Romanian words I stumbled upon... :

BUBURUZ   -tiny ball, pimple, ladybird

CAPRAREATA   -place where the sheep rest

CÎRLIGATURA  -the place where the road turns

CNEZ  -free farmer (may there have been many of them!)

DRUM   -way,road

FARAON   -tzigane (hungarian gypsy,this words root:egypt,anyway: roma,sinti)

FÎNTÎNA   -fountain

GANGUR   -golden oriole

GRAMATIC  -scribe (from greek: gramma,lettersign)

HITLEAN   -perfidious

IEZERCAN   -body of water smaller and less deep than a pool

IZLAZ   -pasture

JDER   -skin of a martyr

MITITEL    -very small

MOHORÎT   - sombre,sad
PAZNIC   -guardian
PETEC   -rag,piece
PIERSIC   -peach-tree (latin: persicum,greek: persikos)
POSTELNICEASA   -wife of a postelnic
PROROC   -prophet
SPERLA   -warm ashes
SPINZURATOARE   -gallows
TAINITA   -secret place
TIPSIE   -tray to carry plates
TRANDAFIR   -rose (greek : triandafylla = 30 leaves)
VÎRF   -  top (of a mountain)
VULTUREL   -small vulture
ZADAR  - in vain
ZBUCIUMAT   -tormented,troubled
ZUGRAV   - decoration painter, painter of icons (greek: zografos =painter)

ZMEURET   -place covered with raspberries

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onomatopoeia of the day     :

FUUT  [ füüt]  This also being the Dutch name for one the most beautifull birds of the universe.Most of the time this bird utters a quite hoarse call ('kreq'' comes to mind) but during mating time (see pictures below), also whistling tones. The great crested grebe ( the english thesaurii don't reveal where this namecomes from, maybe from the hoarse call? )is called in different regions of the Netherlands:

pronkvogel -strutbird, 

grote aalduiker - great eeldiver (they are great divers,leaving a trace of small bubbles,that, raising to the waterlevel burst and share their greatcrestedgrebelungscontent with the athmosphere), 

loem-connected with 'loon',

zandreiger-sandheron, 

keizer-emperor, 

satijnduiker -satindiver,

 kroonduiker -crowndiver,

 garnaalvreter-shrimpglutton,

hjerringslynder (frisian) -herringswallower.

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Hm.......actually,is  boo  an onomatopoeia? As the sound of a bovine  animal, ofcause,

but as a (super)human sound?

Yes, i guess it's more than likely that  the frightening boo  originated in the neolithicum,when

people as a joke unexpectedly made the sound of an aurochs behind eachothers back.