[Tlhingan-hol] lung

[SuStel]

On 6/20/2014 4:51 PM, André Müller wrote:
> 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.

But the -'a' suffix doesn't just make something bigger; it makes the 
noun into something different that is more important, more grand, or, 
yes, also bigger than the original.

For instance, {mIv'a'} doesn't mean "big, honkin' helmet"; it means "crown."

{ghargh'a'} wouldn't mean "really big snake" or "snake that's even more 
snakelike than a regular snake." It means a thing that is like a snake 
but is bigger or more important, and isn't just a snake. The only thing 
I can think of that fits that description is a dragon or something of 
that ilk: basilisk, wyvern, hydra.




>
> On Jun 20, 2014 7:53 PM, "SuStel" <sustel at trimboli.name
> <mailto: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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