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Together they can make the combined-arms-gulls.
In light of the above, then, I hereby propose that squirrels get renamed to “treegulls.”
I think a “landgull” would just be a pigeon
Nah, that’s an airgull. A landgull would be a chicken.
If there are armadillos, where are the legadillos?
Given how much cuter a goldfish is than a silverfish, whatever a bronzefish is must be a absolutely disgusting.
And what about the Dillos who don’t want to be armed?
unarmadillos?
Stands to reason, yes. Maybe also navyadillos and airforcadillos.
It’s all fun and games until the firegull nation attacks.
My brother and I discovered the new Gulliver…
I’ve seen many seagulls in my life.
But I’ve never seen any of the others.
And that’s terrifying. Stay vigilant.
Long ago, the four gulls lived together in harmony. Then everything changed when the fire gulls attacked…
Bay-gull. Bagel.
Bay-hull; loves explosions.
We have Baygulls. They are tasty with cream cheese.
Yeah until one of those airgulls comes and swipes it.
I live in Colorado and there are gulls here, we are far from the sea.
It’s Called seagull
It flies
With that logic, firegull are penguins.
That logic is incredible! But of course!
Water-Gull. Earth-Gull. Fire-Gull. Air-Gull. Long ago, the four nations lived together in harmony. Then, everything changed when the Fire-Gull Nation attacked.
Heartgulls
“By your powers combined, I’m Captain Gull!”
I am Gull, and by this axe I rule!
Don’t forget bay-gulls. They love fish, especially smoked salmon
You have to go pretty far back (to proto-Celtic, it looks like) to find a linguistic ancestor for the word “gull” that doesn’t just mean “that specific bird.”
But in proto-Celtic, it looks like “weilanna” probably meant “wailer.” As in, “one who wails,” though we don’t know exactly what the suffix “-anna” means. A similar word in that language would’ve been “wailos,” which even though it sounds similar seems to have been unrelated to our modern term “wolf,” as it comes from a different proto-indo-european root.
Anyway, the word “gull” does refer to the sounds that it makes more than anything else. So in figuring out what a landgull, airgull, and firegull might be, we need to find something noisy. Or just something annoying, given the derisive connotation of “wail.”
Edit: This is, of course, assuming that we’re looking for different existing types of animals to be these creatures, rather than just (for instance) creating new, elemental forms of gulls; or “reskinning” seagulls with different elements; or inventing all-new animals to fill those roles.
Wailos or wailer is wolf, is that because they “wail” (howl?) Or is that just a coincidence?
It’s probably the result of a taboo. It’s why people say “bear” (the brown one) or “medved” (the honey knower) instead of “arth” or “ursus”.
Interesting. I knew about “bear” but I did not know about “medved” as another minced-taboo. Thanks for that.
Sorry for being unclear–proto-Celtic calls wolves “wailos” for the same reason as they call gulls “weilanna,” because of the noise, yes. The coincidence is that the modern word “wolf” sounds like the proto-Celtic word “wailos.”
Surely they’re airgulls as they don’t live in the sea?
seagull
looks inside
landgull
