Talk:ហ្សីរ៉ាហ្វ

@Octahedron80, Stephen G. Brown: Hi guys. Do you have a way of verifying these two terms: (សត្វ)ហ្សីរ៉ាហ្វ (ziiraaf) and (សត្វ)កវែង (kɑɑ vɛɛng)? They are not in dictionaries. --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 23:11, 31 March 2019 (UTC)

• For the first word, see ហ្សីរ៉ាហ្វ. It is more likely from French than English due to historical and phonetic reasons.
• កវែង also describes ហ្សីរ៉ាហ្វ in the page, it is some kind of adjective "having long neck and legs", thus it is not literally giraffe.
  • However, សត្វកវែង might colloquially mean giraffe.
  • កវែង is also used to describe ក្រៀល (crane, a kind of bird) either.

--Octahedron80 (talk) 02:06, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

@Octahedron80: Thanks for the edits and the response! --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:48, 1 April 2019 (UTC)

@Octahedron80: I am not 100% sure about the pronunciation (/zəj.ˈraː/) either. Since there is no final /-f/, I made it silent but it's my assumption only. BTW, Google translate makes it silent too when converting text to speech and it also suggest both សត្វកវែង and សត្វហ្សីរ៉ាហ្វ as a translation for "giraffe". Not that I want to rely on Google translate but it's another hint, really limited resources. (I can't find reliable resources for chemical elements for Khmer and Lao). --Anatoli T. ^{(обсудить}/^вклад) 05:54, 1 April 2019 (UTC)