<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra">On Tue, Jul 24, 2018 at 9:13 AM, Rhona Fenwick <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:qeslagh@hotmail.com" target="_blank">qeslagh@hotmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Some excellent and interesting new words in the list. I'm only sorry I couldn't have been at qep'a' and joined in the excitement of the first receipt of them.</p>
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<p style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0">Regarding <b>'ay</b> "to float in or on a liquid", I presume that's supposed to be distinct from
<b>'al</b> "to float in or on air"? E<span>ven if so</span>, the similarity does suggest some kind of etymological relationship might be intended, which is intriguing in itself.</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">On a similar note: <b>ya'rIS</b> "echo" is apparently a pun on Toyota car models, but the fact that it contains <b>rIS</b> "emit sound" hints at some in-character etymological connection. There's also the similarity of <b>voQ</b> "choke" and <b>vIQ</b> "smother, suffocate", which was probably intentional.<br></div></div></div></div>