Talk:amazilia

RFV discussion: January–March 2019
Spanish, "a hummingbird of the Amazilia genus". See Requests for verification/Non-English above. Ultimateria (talk) 01:41, 21 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I believe that Amazilia is translingual only. —Stephen (Talk) 00:25, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
 * For what it is worth, the uses lowercase amizilia all over the place for the common names of many Amizilia species. I know that Wikipedia cannot be used for attestation, but, nevertheless, this strongly suggests that this is a word from the Spanish lexicon.  --Lambiam 22:16, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
 * The distinction between genus names and native words seems much more fluid in Spanish than in English. DTLHS (talk) 22:18, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
 * Three examples of common names spelled with lowercase: amazilia costeña, amazilia ventrinivosa, amazilia colimorada. --Lambiam 22:38, 22 January 2019 (UTC)
 * I saw those on Spanish Wikipedia. I don't consider any of those terms to be common names. In my opinion, it's just carelessness, an attempt to commonize exotic bird names that no one knows about. You can do it in English, too: amazilia hummingbird. I still feel like the amazilia in amazilia hummingbird is the translingual word Amazilia. I don't think any Spanish-speaking person would use or understand amazilia except for some zoologists and bird people who know about the Amazilia genus of colibríes. —Stephen (Talk) 00:53, 23 January 2019 (UTC)
 * RFV failed — Mnemosientje (t · c) 09:46, 21 March 2019 (UTC)