[Tlhingan-hol] lung

[Steven Boozer]

IIRC, {ghargh’a’} is also used in GILGAMESH.

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From: André Müller [mailto:esperantist at gmail.com]
Sent: Friday, June 20, 2014 11:43 AM

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<mailto: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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