Re: List of Dinosaur Name Incorrectly Translated All-too-often

[tuckr@digital.net]

> "Bactria (region in Pakistan) lizard"
                                 ^^^^^^^^

    Actually, present-day Afghanistan.

> "big leg lizard" (Hindi: bara=big, p=leg)
                                                      ^^^^^^

    *_pa_* = "foot, leg"; also Modern Persian, _pa_, whence Persian/English 
"pajamas" (leg-coverings) and "pawn" (foot-soldier in chess, which the 
Persians claim to have invented); from Indo-European roots; cognate with, for 
example, Greek _pous_, _pod-_, Latin _pes_, _ped-_, and Germanic _foot_, _ 
(der) Fuss_.

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