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<div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><div>>Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 09:08:09 +0200<br><div dir="ltr">>From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <<a href="mailto:levinius@gmx.de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">levinius@gmx.de</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>To: <a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@kli.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tlhingan-hol@kli.org</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon word for oil<br></div><div dir="ltr">>Message-ID: <<a href="mailto:3c03afba-c49a-0ef5-6783-f81172170e82@gmx.de" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">3c03afba-c49a-0ef5-6783-f81172170e82@gmx.de</a>><br></div><div dir="ltr">.Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> On Mon, 9 Aug 2021 at 04:09, James Landau <<a href="mailto:savegraduation@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">savegraduation@yahoo.com</a><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> <mailto:<a href="mailto:savegraduation@yahoo.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">savegraduation@yahoo.com</a>>> wrote:<br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> Well, I finally came up with something . . .<br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> nagh nIn<br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> rock fuel<br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">>> It's a calque of the Latin "petroleum".<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>That might what it's called in Latin, but I would not get that when I<br></div><div dir="ltr">>read it.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>{nagh nIn} is just like "Rock fuel" and sounds like either fuel to fire<br></div><div dir="ltr">>rocks, or fuel made of rocks.<br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>Perhaps a better approach is from a technical point of view, saying {nIn<br></div>>tlhol} "unprocessed fuel".</div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">I've finally got a good name for it:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">watrIn nIn</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">lubricant fuel</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">The suggestion of *watrIn* was a good idea. And *watrIn nIn* even rhymes!</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">So we get:</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><span>'avghanIStanDaq watrIn nIn noH ghob George way Bush</span><br></div></div></div></body></html>