tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 27 20:25:29 2004
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Re: calling animals
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: calling animals
- Date: Wed, 28 Apr 2004 13:16:51 +1000
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ghItlhpu' lay'tel SIvten:
>i don't know how widespread the term is, but it's from the latin word for
>"pig", just as the term "bossy" is from latin for "cow".
HISlaH, pong <Sus scrofa> nunob <Latin> Hol. QeD pong 'oH. <Bos domesticus>
'oH "cow" QeD pong'e'.
Perhaps you should have given a meaning for "bossy" the way you intended it.
I had never heard it in that sense before. Here's the meaning and etymology
for those of us unfamiliar:
[Dim. fr. Prov. E. boss in boss-calf, buss-calf, for boose-calf, prop., a
calf kept in the stall. See 1st Boose.] A cow or calf; -- familiarly so
called. [U. S.]
(http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=bossy)
qurgh, I think "suey" might be an Americanism too. I am familiar with it,
but haven't ever heard it used here in Australia.
QeS lagh
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