[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon word for oil

De'vID de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Sun Aug 8 23:32:13 PDT 2021


On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 at 04:09, James Landau <savegraduation at yahoo.com> wrote:

> Well, I finally came up with something . . .
>
> nagh nIn
>
> rock fuel
>
> It's a calque of the Latin "petroleum".
>

I think {nIn} by itself would probably suffice in many contexts, if you're
already talking about cars and trucks and so on.

Just don't call it {SIp}, as people in some countries on Earth apparently
do.

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De'vID
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