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Skylodon

posted 8 years ago by atma_gyan
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Just came here to be annoying with useless trivia: "Skylodon" is not an ancient Greek word, it comes from modern Greek and it means "dogtooth". Not "animal tooth", definitely not "golden animal tooth". Just the tooth of a dog. And the ancient word would be transcribed as "Kynodon".

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[–] DepheatingRub 8 years ago

Maybe so, but the place isn't called "skylodon". It's "Chryskylodon", which, why not? could mean 'golden animal tooth'.

[–] atma_gyan 8 years ago

"Golden dog tooth" in that case. I didn't hear the "Chrys" part at all.

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