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"verengan" mu' mung (Etymology of 'Ferengi') was Re: tlhIngan Hol qun.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU)
Fri Jan 21 02:58:11 1994
Reply-To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
From: nsn@vis.mu.OZ.AU (Nick NICHOLAS)
To: "Klingon Language List" <tlhIngan-Hol@klingon.East.Sun.COM>
Date: Thu, 20 Jan 94 10:24:20 EDT
In-Reply-To: <5765.9401191419@s5.sys.uea.ac.uk>; from "Richard Kennaway" at Jan
19, 94 2:19 pm
batlh choja', Richard Kennaway quv:
=Matthew Faupel writes:
=>1: In which (Terran) language is "ferengi" an insult?
="farang" means "foreigner" in, I think, Thailand, though not necessarily as
=an insult. Obviously a borrowing from English -- perhaps "ferengi" is
=another?
I recall someone on rec.arts.startrek saying it was Hindi for stranger ---
it may be a loan there too, I dunno. Shouldn't be too hard to confirm or
disconfirm.
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