coney — a rabbit
conejo or coneja — the masculine and feminine Spanish cognates of the same meaning
When I taught Spanish, the students loved learning words for animals. They loved learning food words more, but animal vocabulary was a close second. Many animal words are straight cognates or easily deciphered. Some examples are “tigre,” “elefante,” “hipopó…
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