Why are BIRDEATERS Called Birdeaters?

[Chris LXXIX]

I'd love to being a 'Pimp' and 'name' all of my amazing working ladies that way

Like, for instance... Jane, 'The Birdeater'; This one is Claudia, the 'Striped Tiger of the tipper truck', and so forth

 

[Pa Uchok]

Yes, "bird spiders" . Fugl means "bird" and edderkopp/edderkop (Norwegian and Danish spelling) means "spider". The suffix -er is just the plural form.

Thank you! For decades I have wondered how Tolkien came up with the word "attercop". And now I know.

 

[Patherophis]

A lot of Germanic languages calls them "bird spiders".

It also occurs in slavic languages, e.g. polish "ptasznik" or slovak "vtáčkar".

 

[Tim Benzedrine]

A. geniculata should be "eats anything in sight that moves" spider. or "finger-eating spider".

 

[viper69]

Interesting. Do you know what this would literally translate to? It looks like a conjunction of "Fugleed der kopper" but that turns up nothing in Google translate.

A bit off topic, I admit, but I find European languages fascinating

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