The sound of Romance

[Xochi]

So many different names for the butterfly in the Romance languages, but most of them sound kinda nice.

Aragonese: paxarela

Catalan: papallona
Aran Gascon: parpalhòla
Occitan: parpalhon
French: papillon
Picard: paviole
Arpitan: parpelyon
Piemontese: parpajon (Perd?)
Romansh: tgiralla
Friulian: pavee

The Indigenous Mexican language Nahuatl's word for butterfly is Papalotl (classical Nahuatl)
Many of the modern spellings I see are Paplotl/Papalotl/Papalot.

[Mens-Sarda]

The Indigenous Mexican language Nahuatl's word for butterfly is Papalotl (classical Nahuatl)
Many of the modern spellings I see are Paplotl/Papalotl/Papalot.

in Sardinian : mariposa

while in Italian : farfalla

quite similar to the others

[Comte Arnau]

in Sardinian : mariposa

while in Italian : farfalla

quite similar to the others

That Sardinian form is clearly from Spanish. The origin of it, by the way, is quite silly. It comes from ancient child songs calling Mary to perch down.

[Peyrol]

Neapolitan language, i think it was never posted

[allalor]

In my dialect (abruzzese) butterflies are called cialamarèlle or even alme de l'Ambregadorje (Purgatory souls) according to a popular tradition that considered them to be the physical manifestation of the dead.

[Comte Arnau]

A Mediterranean song in Corsican, with the lyrics.

[wvwvw]

In Greek it's Petalouda (d as in English the)

[Ianus]

Song from region, fortunately most of you don't understand a world

[Fincher]

[Fincher]