Aliasing hexapodal → hexaped
Link to alias

Reason:

6 legged animal or character.Consistent with other locomotion tags such as biped(2 legged) or quadruped(4 legged)

EDIT: The tag alias hexapodal -> hexaped (forum #205356) has been rejected by @Millcore.

EDIT: The tag alias hexapodal -> hexaped (forum #205356) has been rejected by @Millcore.

Dude.

Hexapod (greek) or Sexaped (latin).

Although I would be wary of the latter.

hslugs said:

Quote from wikipedia(Locomotion; Number of legs)

With the exception of the birds, terrestrial vertebrate groups with legs are mostly quadrupedal – the mammals, reptiles, and the amphibians usually move on four legs. There are many quadrupedal gaits. The most diverse group of animals on earth, the insects, are included in a larger taxon known as hexapods, most of which are hexapedal, walking and standing on six legs. Exceptions among the insects include praying mantises and water scorpions, which are quadrupeds with their front two legs modified for grasping, some butterflies such as the Lycaenidae (blues and hairstreaks) which use only four legs, and some kinds of insect larvae that may have no legs (e.g., maggots), or additional prolegs (e.g., caterpillars).

The latter by the way is unverifiable as a real word for the propose in this thread. googled sexaped and all i get most is child sex traffiking and age-rape(intentionally misspelled as "agape" to not be easily noticed by automatic police crawling)webpage links.

*Also adding that hexapedal is also commonly used in robotics as well to describe robots that walk on six legs

You might want to check the suggestion again. You're trying to alias it to hexaped, instead of hexapod.

Note that even Wikipedia uses the latter instead of former.

Genjar said:
You might want to check the suggestion again. You're trying to alias it to hexaped, instead of hexapod.

Note that even Wikipedia uses the latter instead of former.

hexapod is a class(pardon if im off on species hierarchy) of insects species, hexapedal is a type of locomotion on 6 legs, hexaped is a figure that walks on 6 legs.
hexapedal is stated in the text on wikipedia as well as in a large number of official research papers on robotics that feature the same type of locomotion.

The alias is correct, there are no insects under the hexapodal tag but there are other species there that are walking on six legs

Ruku said:
hexapod is a class(pardon if im off on species hierarchy) of insects species, hexapedal is a type of locomotion on 6 legs, hexaped is a figure that walks on 6 legs.

Hexapod is just a noun that means "six-footed". Insects are, accidentally, it's their defining characteristic.
Hexapedal is an adjective with the same meaning, "six-footed".
Who knows why it's -ped- in this case but that's not unusual even in English. Think mouse-mice.

"Hexaped" is your attempt at deriving noun from adjective using some made-up rules, and assuming it's correct.
Natural languages do not work like that. The noun is "hexapod".

In the same vein, plural of "house" is not "hice" just because plural of "mouse" is "mice".

hslugs said:
Hexapod is just a noun that means "six-footed". Insects are, accidentally, it's their defining characteristic.
Hexapedal is an adjective with the same meaning, "six-footed".
Who knows why it's -ped- in this case but that's not unusual even in English. Think mouse-mice.

"Hexaped" is your attempt at deriving noun from adjective using some made-up rules, and assuming it's correct.
Natural languages do not work like that. The noun is "hexapod".

In the same vein, plural of "house" is not "hice" just because plural of "mouse" is "mice".

Thats a bad comparison considering we are not talking about singular or plural grammar but rather compounded root words. And no rules are made up, they use the same system as biped or quadruped do.

~http://www.dictionary.com/browse/-ped
~http://www.dictionary.com/browse/hexa-
~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English#P
~https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Greek_and_Latin_roots_in_English#H

*Not a really a valid source but i think the last comment on the pose is still worth while in regards to usage http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Talk:Hexaped

hslugs said:
In the same vein, plural of "house" is not "hice" just because plural of "mouse" is "mice".

You've been watching AVGN haven't you? Those exact two examples. Plurals are odd.

Ruku said:
Thats a bad comparison considering we are not talking about singular or plural grammar but rather compounded root words.

Find a dictionary and grep it for words ending with -al. Few of those words form nouns by dropping -al like you did with hexapedal.

The first one I get is abdominal. The noun is abdomen.

And no rules are made up, they use the same system as biped or quadruped do.

In the same system, six-footed would be "sexaped". The system in question is Latin language.

Conversely, hexapod goes in the same bin with monopod, tripod (things you put cameras on) and tetrapod (four-legged animals).

Yep.
Uniped, biped, triped, quadruped, quintuped, sexaped, septuaped, octoped.

[Edit: Deleted the outdated text. I can't believe that this is still pending after four years...]

hslugs said:
Find a dictionary and grep it for words ending with -al. Few of those words form nouns by dropping -al like you did with hexapedal.

The first one I get is abdominal. The noun is abdomen.

In the same system, six-footed would be "sexaped". The system in question is Latin language.

Conversely, hexapod goes in the same bin with monopod, tripod (things you put cameras on) and tetrapod (four-legged animals).

Again hexaped uses the same system as other locomotion word such as uniped, biped,quadruped, octoped and others, these are all real words. And there is real usage of it as opposed to sexaped(with added misunderstandings pointed out above)

https://books.google.com/books?id=yMaN9pk8QJAC&lpg=PA55&dq=hexaped&pg=PA50#v=onepage&q=hexaped&f=false (and other pages, directly concerns animal locomotion)
https://books.google.com/books?id=klcZAAAAYAAJ&dq=hexaped&pg=PA178#v=onepage&q=hexaped&f=false (lower half of page 178)
https://books.google.com/books?id=0nxBAAAAYAAJ&dq=hexaped&pg=PA923#v=onepage&q=hexaped&f=false (top of page 923)
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Genjar said:
Yep.
Uniped, biped, triped, quadruped, quintuped, sexaped, septuaped, octoped.

The current standard has been to lump anything over four into multiple_legs, though. Same as other multiple limb (and head/tail etc) tags.

6_breasts implicated rather then aliased to multi_breast...

Ruku said:
Again hexaped uses the same system as other locomotion word such as uniped, biped,quadruped, octoped and others

Which system is that?
Try spelling your reasoning clearly, and I'll point out where you are wrong.

https://books.google.com[/quote]

Conclusion: sexaped is not being used.
Compare Hexapod and Hexaped instead:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexaped
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexapod
https://www.google.com/search?q=Hexaped+Hexapod

Hudson said:
You've been watching AVGN haven't you? Those exact two examples. Plurals are odd.

Lol, no, AVGN is not the only one to notice that.

The tag alias hexapodal -> hexaped (forum #205356) has been rejected by @Millcore.

The tag alias hexapodal -> hexaped (forum #205356) has been rejected by @Millcore.