@Gargron in catalan is "papallona"

@Gargron now i have butterfly by crazy town playing in my head

@Gargron should really be called flutter by's

@Gargron

It seems that numerous myths and cultural tales influenced the name, as well as the phonosemantic attempt to use a word that reproduced the flapping sound.

@Gargron
Probably because butterflies aren't used for trade or anything like that. You just don't need butterflies to trade, sail, travel.

@Gargron you're just bitter yours is schmetterling

@Gargron

My guess is language and culture determine names of things *nouns

@Gargron oh so its not just german again? you know: SCHMETTERLING

@Gargron Because natural languages are silly like that... for no reason whatsoever.

@Gargron Gyönyörűszép pillangó szárnyal a naplementében 😇😁

@Gargron this is kind of cheating

@Gargron it has a different meaning too. 😊

@Gargron anyway we say Farfalla

@Gargron wtf would you call that thing if there wasn't a word for it in your language

@Gargron
Well, is it?
German and English both refer to making of butter (indo-germanic).
Latin languages seem to be similar, even farfalla might be a form of papilio. (https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/farfalla)
Greeks are on their own, with an ancient and current version.
So, seems like the same as with hand, manus, chira :)

@Gargron in most languages I know it sounds good: in Dutch: vlinder France: papillon English: butterfly except for German, it sounds pretty horrible: Schmetterling (sounds like a 🦠).

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strangely(?) relevant: https://kinggizzard.bandcamp.com/album/butterfly-3000