[영어] 동물의 '복수'
우리 말의 나무 한 그루, 풀 한 포기만큼 복잡한 영어의 동물'들'
<동물의 '복수'>
마음 먹고 찾아보니 실로 대단하다. 동물의 무리를 일컫는 단어, 용어. 워낙 복잡한 체계이다보니, 영어권 지능검사나 SAT, TOEFL 의 어휘력 테스트 문제로 출제되기도 한다.
우리말은 사물마다 '세는' 말이 다양한 걸로 아는데 (나무 한 그루, 풀 한 포기 등) 영어는 '무리'를 칭하는 단어, 용어가 독특하다. 다음은 그 목록. 너무 길어서 대충 각주 달다가 중단, 그러나 내친 김에...
- Antelope: a herd (안텔롭 사슴. 무리, 떼.)
- Ants: a colony or an army (개미. 집단, 군대?)
- Apes: a shrewdness (유인원. 영민함,이라는 단어)
- Baboons: a troop (바분 원숭이. 군단, 군대)
- Badgers: a cete (배저. 시트. '고래'의 의미도 있다고 함.)
- Bass: a shoal (농어. 모래톱, 여울목..)
- Bats: a colony, cloud or cauldron
- Bears: a sloth or sleuth; Cubs: a litter
- Beavers: a colony
- Bees: a swarm
- Boar: a sounder
- Buffalo: a gang or obstinacy
- Camels: a caravan
- Caterpillars: an army
- Cats: a clowder, glaring, pounce, nuisance or clutter; Kittens: a litter or kindle; Wild cats: a destruction
- Cattle: a herd or drove
- Cheetahs: a coalition
- Chickens: a brood or peep; Chicks: a clutch or chattering
- Clams: a bed
- Cobras: a quiver
- Colts: a rag
- Cows: a kine, drove, herd or fold; twelve or more cows are a flink
- Coyotes: a band
- Cranes: a sedge
- Crocodiles: a float or bask
- Crows: a murder
- Deer: a herd
- Dogs: a pack or cowardice; Puppies: a litter
- Dolphins: a pod
- Donkeys: a drove
- Doves: a dule
- Ducks: a brace, paddling or team
- Eagles: a convocation
- Elephants: a herd or parade
- Elk: a gang or herd
- Emus: a mob
- Falcons: a cast
- Ferrets: a business or fesnyng
- Finches: a charm
- Fish: a school, shoal, run, haul or catch
- Flamingos: a stand or flamboyance
- Flies: a swarm, hatch or business
- Foxes: a skulk or leash
- Frogs: an army or a colony
- Geese: a gaggle or flock, a skein when in flight
- Giraffes: a tower
- Gnats: a cloud or horde
- Goats: a herd, tribe or trip
- Goldfinches: a charm
- Goldfish: a troubling
- Gorillas: a band
- Grasshoppers: a cloud
- Greyhounds: a leach
- Hares: a down or husk
- Hawks: a cast or kettle
- Hippopotami: a bloat or thunder
- Hogs: a drift or parcel
- Horses: a team or harras
- Hounds: a pack, mute or cry
- Hyenas: a cackle
- Jaguars: a shadow
- Jellyfish: a smack or brood
- Kangaroos: a troop or mob
- Larks: an ascension or exaltation
- Lemurs: a conspiracy
- Leopards: a leap
- Lice: a flock
- Lions: a pride
- Locust: a plague or cloud
- Magpies: a tiding or tittering
- Mallards: a sord
- Manatees: an aggregation
- Mares: a stud
- Martens: a richness
- Minnows: a steam
- Moles: a labor
- Monkeys: a barrel, cartload or troop
- Mules: a pack, barren or span
- Nightingales: a watch
- Otters: a family, romp or raft
- Owls: a parliament
- Oxen: a team or yoke
- Oysters: a bed
- Parrots: a pandemonium or company
- Partridges: a covey
- Peacocks: a muster or ostentation
- Penguins: a colony
- Pheasants: a nest, nide or bouquet
- Pigeons: a flock or flights
- Pigs: a drift or drove (younger pigs), or a sounder, litter or team (older pigs)
- Ponies: a string
- Porcupines: a prickle
- Rabbits: a colony or warren
- Raccoons: a gaze
- Rats: a colony, pack, swarm or mischief
- Rattlesnakes: a rhumba
- Ravens: an unkindness
- Rhinoceroses: a crash
- Sharks: a shiver
- Sheep: a drove or flock
- Skunks: a stench
- Snakes: a nest or knot
- Sparrows: a host
- Squirrels: a dray or scurry
- Starlings: a murmuration
- Stingrays: a fever
- Storks: a mustering
- Swans: a bevy or lamentation, a wedge when in flight
- Tigers: an ambush or a streak
- Toads: a knot or knab
- Trout: a hover
- Turkeys: a gang, posse or rafter
- Turtles: a bale or nest
- Vultures: a venue
- Wasps: a pledge
- Weasels: a colony, gang or pack
- Whales: a pod, school or gam
- Wolves: a pack or route
- Wombats: a wisdom
- Woodpeckers: a descent
- Zebras: a zeal
A swarm of drones
A bed of clam(s)
