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[โ€“] Diddlydee@feddit.uk 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That seems crazy. All butterflies come from moths, so it'd make more sense for Papillon to mean moth. It's like calling everything from the order Rodentia a Capybara, or everything in Eulipotyphla a hedgehog, both things within those orders in smaller numbers.

[โ€“] Kichae@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 year ago

Weirdly enough, language largelt evolves independently from other species.