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by Kostic 3305 days ago
> All the Slavic languages known to Google Translate have a word related to motyl, except for Russian

In Serbian and Croatian the word for butterfly is лептир/leptir.

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Which relates to the Greek word used as a base for lepidopterist?

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lepidopterology

pt*r being PIE wing as in pterodactyl ?