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hiromichi
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 Posted: Fri Dec 16, 2005 12:17 am Post subject: ailurophile |
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Then what do you call a dog lover?
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dabro
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 7:13 am Post subject: Re: ailurophile |
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| Then what do you call a dog lover? |
Here's a humorous comment, Hiro.
http://www.writeclique.net/work.php?ID=55
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hiromichi
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:26 pm Post subject: |
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David-sensei, Thank you for your introduction of an interesting article.
2006 is the year of the Dog in terms of the Oriental zodiac. It seems that there are no counterpart to ailurophile. I only found "hippophile."
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stellara
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 12:58 pm Post subject: |
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"k�ōn" is ancient greek and means "dog". so i'd say a dog lover is a kyonophile  because with ailurophile it's the same: "ailuros" is ancient greek and means "cat".
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hiromichi
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| Posted: Sat Dec 17, 2005 1:59 pm Post subject: |
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stellara, Thank you a lot.
A Chinese character of dog has a pronunciation of "ken" . So it might have derived from Greek. That is a folk etymology. I stop joking.
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