[Tlhingan-hol] village dweller

[David Trimboli]

Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> 
> André Müller <esperantist at gmail.com> 
>> Josh Badgley <joshbadgley at hotmail.com>
>>> What would be a good tlhIngan Hol term for "village dwellers" ? And
>>> please, not  anything that translates to "village people", I already
>>> thought of that...:)
>>
>> Two suggestions: For the "villagers", what do you think about
>> venganpu'? That'd work in the same way as tlhInganpu' is derived from
>> tlhIng yoS, the Kling District.
> 
> Well, *{venganpu’} (< *vengnganpu’} would be urbanites, CITY dwellers.
> *{vengHomnganpu’} would be villagers.  But there’s no reason you can’t
> write this as two words {vengHom nganpu’}.  We tend to forget that
> {ngan} “inhabitant” is a perfectly good noun all on its own.  Also,
> IIRC all the gentilics we’ve seen with the “suffix” form {-ngan} have
> been with proper names – e.g. {nuralngan} Neuralese – not simple nouns
> like {veng}, {vengHom}, {yuQ}, {Duj}, etc.

And using two words avoids questions of whether you’re allowed to create
your own compound nouns—which you’re not: see TKD 3.4.

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