Today during a walk it occurred to me that the word for butterfly is seemingly beautiful in all the languages, at least the ones I know:
- Butterfly – English
- Papillon – French
- Schmetterling – German
- Mariposa – Spanish
- Papillio – Latin
- Kamehameha – Hawaiian
- 蝶 – Japanese (pronounced CHO)
How cool are those words?
In Chinese, the pronunciation is die (in pin-yin) but d-i-air (phonetically), and shares the same character as its Japanese counterpart. Beautiful too.