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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] lung

SuStel ([email protected])



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}.

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