Re: [dinosaur] dinosaur-l Digest Tue, 22 Dec 2020

To: Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu>, "dinosaur-l@usc.edu" <dinosaur-l@usc.edu>

Subject: Re: [dinosaur] dinosaur-l Digest Tue, 22 Dec 2020

From: Ethan Schoales <ethan.schoales@gmail.com>

Date: Wed, 23 Dec 2020 03:09:15 -0500

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Since when did "aster" mean "similar"?

(If it Abitusavis were Abituavis, at least the first part of the compound is supposed to end in a u, unlike Oculudentavis, since it's fourth-declension rather than second-declension.)

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 3:06 AM Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu> wrote:

Unlovely and/or wrongly formed:

Preposing simili- is a clunky way of trying to capture the meaning âsimilar to.â What happened to good old -oides (or the somewhat less common -aster)?

âAbitusavisâ is supposed to be derived from *abitus* âdepartureâ, but the -s in *abitus* isnât really part of the word: itâs a grammatical ending indicating case and number. If you really want âdeparture bird,â it would be *Abituavis*.

âNick Pharris

On Dec 22, 2020, at 10:51 PM, Ethan Schoales <ethan.schoales@gmail.com> wrote:

ï
What do you mean by that?

On Wed, Dec 23, 2020 at 1:10 AM Nick Pharris <npharris@umich.edu> wrote:
Mickey Mortimer wrote:

âJust as an example, I just checked Similiyanornis and Abitusavis that were described recently, and that's true for them.Â We would be losing a lot of names this way.â

No great loss, as far as those two are concerned. Ugh.

âNick Pharris