[99792] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] squirrel
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeremy Silver)
Sat Nov 15 12:55:37 2014
From: Jeremy Silver <j.silver@mupwi.demon.co.uk>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
Date: Sat, 15 Nov 2014 17:55:19 +0000
In-Reply-To: <91BB10CBBED6410BAB84D393E9055D16@no1>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@kli.org
On Saturday 15 Nov 2014 09:15:31 DloraH wrote:
> > Though it would have been a good opportunity for someone to
> > submit something like:
> > Sa'HutDaq pob'a' ghajbogh Sor qorvIt
>
> nuq 'oH qorvIt'e'? mu'vetlh vIghovbe'.
> nuq 'oS [pob'a'] mu''e'? [law'] rurba'be' [-'a']. tlhuQ rurba'be'
> [pob'a'].
>
> [squirrel] 'oH QInvam per'e', vaj squirrel 'oSlaw' mu'tlheghvetlh, 'ach
> jIHvaD mu'tlheghvetlh jatlhchugh vay', squirrel vIqelbe'.
>
qorvIt - rodent like animal listed as a farm pest, according to my notes canon
from a novel I think. Could have chosen a Qa', if a Qa'Hom is too small, or
some other small animal. No idea if a boqrat is anything like a rat but it
might work.
Perhaps [pob law' ] may work better for "hairy". Thanks for the correction,
though many/numerous does not seem to fit a noun like "hair" to my
understanding.
Otherwise I was referencing a specific colloquial expression referring to the
genus in question, you may be unfamiliar with it as a cursory search indicates
its usage is a lot rarer than I thought. As I doubt students/teachers of this
particular language have tender ears (if you do turn away now), the term is
"hairy arsed tree rat".
mupwI'
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