tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 28 11:16:38 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: bor
I'm terribly prone to mix this word up with {ghagh}, meaning "gargle".
> I don't know if there's a matching English word, but borborygme is
> the French noun for the noises your stomach make.
Good find!
The English term is apparently borborygmus:
http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/borborygmus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Borborygmus
At 06:48 '?????' 1/28/2013, Steven Boozer wrote:
> > Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, January 27, 2013
> >
> > Klingon word: bor
> > Part of speech: verb
> > Definition: gurgle
> > Source: HQ:v12n4p8
>
>HQ 12.4: The verb meaning gurgle, specifically applied to one's
>stomach [{burgh}] gurgling or talking, is {bor}.
>
>Similar words:
>
>ruq belch (v)
>'em vomit (v)
>pub boil (v)
>
>poq indigestion (n)
>
>--
>Voragh
>Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
>
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