[Tlhingan-hol] lung

[SuStel]

On 6/20/2014 12:42 PM, André Müller wrote:
> 2014-06-20 18:27 GMT+02:00 SuStel:
>> 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}.
>
> I used {ghargh'a'} before to describe a snake. The augmentative
> suffix makes the snakeness (serpentity?) a bit more explicit.

{ghargh'a'} doesn't mean "more snakey snake." I would use it to mean 
"dragon of the worm-like variety." The types of dragons usually pictured 
in Dungeons & Dragons art I would call a {lung'a'}.

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