Date: Mon, 9 Aug 2021 09:08:09 +0200 From: "Lieven L. Litaer" <levinius@gmx.de> To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon word for oil Message-ID: <3c03afba-c49a-0ef5-6783-f81172170e82@gmx.de> .Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed

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

    Well, I finally came up with something . . .

  nagh nIn

    rock fuel

    It's a calque of the Latin "petroleum".

That might what it's called in Latin, but I would not get that when I read it.

{nagh nIn} is just like "Rock fuel" and sounds like either fuel to fire rocks, or fuel made of rocks.

Perhaps a better approach is from a technical point of view, saying {nIn tlhol}  "unprocessed fuel". I've finally got a good name for it: watrIn nInlubricant fuel The suggestion of *watrIn* was a good idea. And *watrIn nIn* even rhymes! So we get: 'avghanIStanDaq watrIn nIn noH ghob George way Bush