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[Facts] "animal" names
How many names which are also animal names do you know?For example, in italian I know Leone (lion), Lupo (wolf), Orso (bear) and Colomba (dove).
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Always in Italian Tortora (also dove), Can Grande, meaning "Great Dog" was used in the Middle Ages, it was the name of Dante's protector.Hebrew has quite a few "animal" names, Zev, Dov, Ziv, Eyal.
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If you mean names that are literaly animal names (as opposed to names that have etymological animal meanings like Ronan or Philip):Robin
Wren
Wolf
Sable
Cat, Kitty (nickname for Catherine)
Paloma (dove / Spanish)
Leão (Lion / Portuguese)
Marta (marten / Portuguese)
Loup (wolf / French)
Lev (lion / Russian)
Mina (fish / Sanskrit)
Ari (lion / Hebrew)
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romansch/swiss: ursina (f.) - little bear, urs (m.) - bear (similar to ursula)romansch: linard (m.) - lion ( the "i" is pronounced like in "spinning" and not like in "iowa")
old german version: lennard. those are abbreviations of leonhard (means "hard lion"). scandinavian: arvid (m.) - eaglearamaic: tabitha (or the latin translation: tabea) (f.) - gazellehebrew: rachel (f.) - ewe there also others like bernhard, bruno, leopold, wolfgang, björn which i guess sound weird in english ;)
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