Re: Albanian words for eyebrow


"benlizross" <benlizro@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote ...

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

António Marques wrote:

Peter T. Daniels wrote:

"Maikäferliebhaber" (a person having a loving interest in
chafers).

What's a chafer?

Screw literature, back to entomology. A "chafer" is one of a class of
large slow-moving beetles, the best known of which is the "cockchafer".
I believe "Marienkäfer" is also one of the many religious=sounding names
for the ladybird.

"Chafer", meaning beetle, OE "ceafor", apparently comes from a root "kaf-"
meaning "gnaw" (nothing to do with "chafe", from Latin "calefacere", make
hot).

A rosechafer gnaws on roses. As for a cockchafer, I hate to think...

J.


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