History: Penguin

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Though it's not the only 'antarctic bird' by any means, does that expression automatically conjure up anything else for you? * No, it doesn't. OTOH, when I think of penguinity I don't think primarily of it being the most salient antarctic bird. In an ideal world the word for 'penguin' would be imbued with penguinity; it would waddle, be black & white, and so forth. --((And)) Oh, alright: 'sfenisku'. * that's sarcasm, right? *Although I still try to figure out what the other kinds of ''nisku'' are, I think that ''pen gwyn'' has been fu'ivlaed into enough languages that I prefer ''penguine''. -phma ---- The etymology of ''dzipo'' 'Antarctica(n)' is the nonce lujvo ''dzucipni'' 'walking-birds', referring to the emperor and Adélie penguins that are a notable feature of that continent.