[Tlhingan-hol] lung

[André Müller]

I used {ghargh'a'} before to describe a snake. The augmentative suffix
makes the snakeness (serpentity?) a bit more explicit.


2014-06-20 18:27 GMT+02:00 SuStel <sustel at trimboli.name>:

> On 6/20/2014 12:22 PM, Gaerfindel wrote:
>
>> How does one differentiate, say, a lizard from a snake.  Both use
>> {lung}, I would assume?
>>
>
> lung
> lizard
>
> ghargh
> serpent, worm
>
> Someone on Star Trek somewhere along the line misinterpreted {ghargh}
> "serpent, worm" as "serpent worm," a particular kind of worm, and the bad
> pronunciation gave us {qagh}, which they pronounced like gaH or gagh. But
> the general word for a creature in the form of a serpent (like a snake)
> would be {ghargh}.
>
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> SuStel
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