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Re: "animal" names
Always in Italian Tortora (also dove), Can Grande, meaning "Great Dog" was used in the Middle Ages, it was the name of Dante's protector.Hebrew has quite a few "animal" names, Zev, Dov, Ziv, Eyal.My cooking experiment: http://lagerusalemmecucinata.blogspot.ch/ (actually updated!)~formerly known as Murasaki~
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