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September 02, 2003
English/Danish Fish-tionary
Did you know the Danish knurhane was the yellow/grey gurnard or that it looks like
this?
The site also has common names in Faroese, Icelandic, Norwegian, Swedish, Finnish, German and French ...
For example ...
| FÆ: | Knurrhani |
| ÍS: | Urrari |
| NO: | Knurr |
| SE: | Knorrhane, gnoding, knot |
| FI: | Kyhmykurnusimppu |
| D: | Roter/Grauer Knurrhahn |
| ENG: | Yellow/Grey gurnard |
| FR: | Grondin perlon/gris |
There's also a great chart of drawings of fish, shellfish, molluscs and an octopus here and a dictionary of common fish names here (which has a column for Greenlandish names "coming soon").
When confronted with a name like "rødspætte" I google for it, find the Latin species name, -- "Pleuronectes platessa" in this case -- regoogle for that and voilà! "Plaice"! This site solves that problem ... now I just need one for birds, flowering shrubs, trees, insects ...
Posted by daen at September 2, 2003 09:49 PM