Re: Icelandic dinosaur names

[David Marjanovic <david.marjanovic@gmx.at>]

In Chinese, too, every genus and species name is translated/recreated.

>  Seildýr (Chordata)

Like TMK, I'm sure that dýr means "animals". The rest must then be a 
translation of _chorda_... and indeed, _Seil_ means "rope" in German.

BTW, German-speaking hunters reportedly restrict _Tier_ to "adult female 
red deer (*Cervus elaphus*)". That's particularly interesting because, 
while they have lots and lots of technical terms that nobody else uses, 
most of them are just poetic metaphors, for instance a hare's tail is 
called "flower".