• Diddlydee
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    3 months ago

    That seems crazy. All butterflies come from moths, so it’d make more sense for Papillon to mean moth. It’s like calling everything from the order Rodentia a Capybara, or everything in Eulipotyphla a hedgehog, both things within those orders in smaller numbers.

    • Kichae@lemmy.ca
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      3 months ago

      Weirdly enough, language largelt evolves independently from other species.