[Tlhingan-hol] Puns!

[nIqolay Q]

Here's one I noticed earlier:
{qoch} = squeeze (into a space)
"Coach" is one name for the cheap seats on an airplane, where passengers
are often packed together closely.

There's also this one:
{SuqSIv} = core (of an apple, planet, sun, but not a group)
"Viscous" backwards, though I'm not sure what that has to do with cores, so
I'm not sure it's a pun. (Lately, it seems whenever there's a two-syllable
noun my first thought is "where's the pun"?)


On Fri, Oct 30, 2015 at 5:04 PM, André Müller <esperantist at gmail.com> wrote:

> While typing up the new words into my Lexique Pro database, I noticed some
> more puns.
>
> {yu'muD} = form (to be filled out)
> For this one, I'd say 'questionnaire' might also be a fitting (albeit
> non-canonical) translation... guess why.
>
> {nIqDob} = perforator, hole punch
> A tool for making holes into thin material... I was curious and googled
> for "bodkin", have a look!
>
> {Ha'on} = staple
> It reads "Noah" backwards... well, Noah also always put two together,
> somehow, but perhaps there is another person with that name. Maybe a Noah
> Stapler, Noah Staples, something like that... I don't know.
>
> {ghogh'ot} = bill
> Hmm... an "invoice" is a kind of bill, too. {ghogh} means 'voice', maybe
> *{'ot} should remind one of "out"... a voice-out? Any better idea?
>
> {tenwal} = page
> It reads "lawnet" backwards. Maybe there's a relation to that. I didn't
> find much that directly relate to pages...
>
> {'alnIl} = buckle (of a belt)
> What sounds like "alnil" and has to do with belts? Hmm... think of Orion!
> :)
>
> {Su'nIm} = profile (of a shoe, fingerprint, etc.)
> It reads "minus" backwards. Maybe because the profile of a shoe is the
> negative of the print it leaves in the mud?
>
> {yang} = stamp's image
> The Chinese word for the mark left by a stamp is "yin", but that word was
> already taken. Well, such is life... ;)
>
> {HeySel} = atom
> The clue is: Belgium.
>
> {qol'om} = gold
> Someone had already suggested something for this, but when I saw it, I
> thought of gold as a precious metal. Who else likes precious things more
> than he should?
>
> ...there must be many more. Some look very much like puns, but didn't ring
> a bell. Like the {wa'chaw / wev / war} triplet...
>
> I really enjoyed the new word list!
> - André
>
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