Talk:Duusu/@comment-28768715-20170112124713/@comment-34998547-20180425151051

It is ironic having Duusu female with peacock feathers, because it is only the male of that bird species that sports such feathers. The female, called a peahen, does not. Think of how only male cardinals are bright red; only male ruby-throated hummingbirds live up to that name, etc.

And truthfully le paon (pronounced as just a P sound followed by the vowel sound at the beginning of the word "encore", including its nasal aspect) is indeed French for "peacock" specifically; like many French words for animals, it is gender-specific. This happens to be a case where it is likewise in English. A peahen in French is la paonne (sounds very close to the English word "pun").