[Tlhingan-hol] lung

[André Müller]

I would not understand it in that meaning. I would understand either a huge
kind of worm (something living in the deep sea or something) or a very
large serpent, like an anaconda or boa. That was also the kind I used this
word for. For a small snake like a viper it wouldn't probably be suitable.

But a snake-like dragon? Nah.
On Jun 20, 2014 7:53 PM, "SuStel" <sustel at trimboli.name> wrote:

> 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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