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Wights are those living things that English would call animals. Below is a set of lists showing the different wights and their names in Anglish. They are organized by the larger group to which they belong, such as birds and fish. Not all wights are listed below, but the list holds both those whose existing name is Anglish, and those whose name needs to be overset.

Birds

English	Binomial name	Anglish
cardinal	Cardinalis cardinalis	(tufted) redbird
curlew	Numenius	whaup
eagle		erne
gull	Larus canus	mew
kestrel	Falco tinnunculus	windhover
penguin	family Spheniscidae	swimbird southern auk great [white-headed] auk
robin	Erithacus rubecula	ruddock
turkey	Meleagris spp.	trootbird (calque of NHD Truthahn, "Trut" being of imitative origin)

Others

English	Binomial name	Anglish
armadillo	order Cingulata	shieldling
baboon	Papio	dog-ape
badger	Meles meles	brock
bison	Bison bison	Americkish Wisent, wesend (<OE, cf. OHG wisunt, ON visundr)
black bear, asian	Ursus thibetanus, Selenarctos thibetanus	moon bear
bonobo	Pan paniscus	dwarf-mockman
camel	Camelus spp.	olvend (<OE olfend), wasteland-horse
capybara	Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris	grasslord (calque of Guarani Kapiÿva), water hog
caribou		reindeer
chimpanzee	Pan troglodytes	mockman (calque of Tshiluba kivili-chimpenze)
chipmunk	Tamius striatus	ground aquern, striped aquern
cougar	Puma concolor	berg manecat
cricket		fiddlebug, fiddlewig midgefiddler
dinosaur		Trollathex
dolphin	Delphinus delphis	mereswine, seapig, seawolf, werewhale
elephant	family Elephantidae	elpend (<OE elpend)
flounder		fluke flukefish (to differentiate from a flukeworm)
guinea pig	Cavia porcellus	sackrat-bunny (calque of Nahuatl tozantochtli)
indri	Indri indri	boyfather (calque of Malagasy babakoto)
insect	class Insecta	bug midge (<OE mygg, mycg) widge, wig (<OE wicga, cf. earwig)
jerusalem cricket	Stenopelmatus	earth suckling
lemur	suborder Strepsirrhini	nightghost
leopard	Panthera pardus	spotted lew, spotlew
lion	Leo	manecat lew (cf. NHG Löwe) manelew leow (OE leo)
lizard		oathex (<OE áðexe), eft (<OE efte, efeta)
monkey		tailape
octopus		kraken (Norwegian krake) eightfooted-softskweezer
Virginia opossum	Didelphis virginiana	whitedog
orangutan		rutherwere
perch		barse (<OE bærs)
piranha	Characidae spp.	cuttingfish (calque of Old Tupi pira nya)
pocket gopher	Geomyidae spp.	sackrat (calque of Ger. Taschenratte)
polar bear		snowbear
raccoon	Procyon lotor	washbear
salmon	Salmo salar	lax
skunk	family Mephitidae	stink-cat, hencat, addlefox
snow leopard		snowlew
squirrel		aquern (<OE acweorna)
tiger	Panthera tigris	striped lew, stripelew
tortoise	family Testudinidae	shieldfrog (calque of Ger. Schildkröte), twisted-hellcrawler
trout		forn, shoat
turtle	family Chelonidae	shielded-toad (calque of NHD Schildkröte), twisted-eftswimmer
velociraptor	Velociraptor mongoliensis	Mongolish dashsnatcher

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+'''Wights''' are those living things that English would call ''animals''. Below is a set of lists showing the different wights and their names in Anglish. They are organized by the larger group to which they belong, such as birds and fish. Not all wights are listed below, but the list holds both those whose existing name is Anglish, and those whose name needs to be overset.
+=Birds=
+{|cellpadding="3" border="1"
+!English
+!Binomial name
+!Anglish
+|-
+|cardinal
+|''Cardinalis cardinalis''
+|(tufted) redbird
+|-
+|curlew
+|''Numenius''
+|whaup
+|-
+|eagle
+|
+|erne
+|-
+|gull
+|''Larus canus''
+|mew
+|-
+|kestrel
+|''Falco tinnunculus''
+|windhover
+|-
+|penguin
+| family ''Spheniscidae''
+|
+swimbird
+southern auk
+great [white-headed] auk
+|-
+|robin
+|''Erithacus rubecula''
+|ruddock
+|-
+| style="vertical-align: top;"|turkey
+| style="vertical-align: top;"|''Meleagris''
+''spp.''
+| style="vertical-align: top;"|trootbird (calque of NHD ''Truthahn'', "''Trut''" being of imitative origin)
+|}
+=Others=
 {|cellpadding="3" border="1"
 !English
-!Scientific name (Latin)
+!Binomial name
 !Anglish
 |-
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 | style="vertical-align: top;"|''Hydrochoerus hydrochaeris''
 | style="vertical-align: top;"|grasslord (calque of Guarani ''Kapiÿva)'', water hog
-|-
-|cardinal
-|''Cardinalis cardinalis''
-|(tufted) redbird
 |-
 |caribou
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 midgefiddler
-|-
-|curlew
-|''Numenius''
-|whaup
 |-
 |dinosaur
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 |
 mereswine, seapig, seawolf, werewhale
-|-
-|dragon
-|
-|drake, wirm, wyrm
-|-
-|eagle
-|
-|
-erne
-*ade (< OE ''*ǣd'' akin to Gk. ''aitos''<PIE ''*aitos)''
 |-
 | style="vertical-align: top;"|elephant
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 | style="vertical-align: top;"|''Cavia porcellus''
 | style="vertical-align: top;"|sackrat-bunny (calque of Nahuatl ''tozantochtli'')
-|-
-|gull
-|''Larus canus''
-|mew
 |-
 | style="vertical-align: top;"|indri
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 |''Stenopelmatus''
 |earth suckling
-|-
-|kestrel
-|''Falco tinnunculus''
-|windhover
 |-
 | style="vertical-align: top;"|lemur
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 | style="vertical-align: top;"|
 | style="vertical-align: top;"|rutherwere
-|-
-|penguin
-| family ''Spheniscidae''
-|
-swimbird
-southern auk
-great [white-headed] auk
 |-
 |perch
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 |''Procyon lotor''
 |washbear
-|-
-|robin
-|''Erithacus rubecula''
-|ruddock
 |-
 |salmon
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 |
 |forn, shoat
-|-
-| style="vertical-align: top;"|turkey
-| style="vertical-align: top;"|''Meleagris''
-''spp.''
-| style="vertical-align: top;"|trootbird (calque of NHD ''Truthahn'', "''Trut''" being of imitative origin)
 |-
 |turtle

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