new vocab: face, head, neck & tanhì! :)

[tsrräfkxätu]

Kaltxì, ma frapo!

Great news! Here's some new vocab nìyey pa'liyä kxata (stress):

Na'vi		English
flew		throat
kxa		mouth
nikre		hair
pewn		neck
re'o		head
sre'		tooth
tanhì		bioluminescent freckle (also star)
tsuksìm		chin
key		face

Awesome stuff! Yay!

[roger]

I wonder what nikre really means, since the Na'vi and other Pandoran mammals don't have hair? How do we distinguish 'a hair' from 'hair'? Or is the latter aynikre?

[Taronyu]

These are great! Thanks.

Was it Prrton who first suggested tanhì for freckle? Whoever did, pretty awesome.

[roger]

No, that was Mirri tsrräfkxätu.

[omängum fra'uti]

Added sample pronunciations to my list   (Not 100% happy with all of these pronunciations though)

Na'vi		English
flew		throat
kxa		mouth
nikre		hair
pewn		neck
re'o		head
sre'		tooth
tanhì		bioluminescent freckle (also star)
tsuksìm		chin
key		face

[tsrräfkxätu]

Was it Prrton who first suggested tanhì for freckle? Whoever did, pretty awesome.

No, that was Mirri.

No, it was me! And now it's official! Unbelievable!

I wonder what nikre really means, since the Na'vi and other Pandoran mammals don't have hair?

That's a good question. Pawl didn't say specifically, but seeing how all these body parts are connected to the head, I'd say that it's for the hair (or whatever it is) that grows on the Na'vi's scalp.

[roger]

Oops! I think I have a freckled brain.

Paul did not release nikre as a 'head' word, so that's only an assumption on our part. All he had was "hair N".

[Plumps]

First of all: Great!!!

Also, I think it was Na'rìghawnu who talked about "neck" in the LEP ... reminding us that it means the whole part of your body between head and 'shoulders' as well as the extention from your back upwards, while German (and I guess other languages as well...) distinguish between  rear part of the neck (dt. "Nacken") and the 'whole thing' (dt. "Hals")
Too bad there isn't a finer distinction... or maybe it is still to come

EDIT: just recognised ... Tirea Aean pointed out ngäng = stomach from the NYT article That should be added

[Unilfwewyu]

May I ask for a source from where you got these? Just curious

[Taronyu]

May I ask for a source from where you got these? Just curious

Frommer.

[Unilfwewyu]

Oh cool! We can send him e-mails? So awesome XD!

[Swoka Swizaw]

Heh heh...flew. (There it is.)

Apparently, though, Frommer is saving hand for a really good time (considering that we have a word for "arm," "elbow," and "finger" already down). Eywa love 'im, though.

[tsrräfkxätu]

Also, I think it was Na'rìghawnu who talked about "neck" in the LEP ... reminding us that it means the whole part of your body between head and 'shoulders' as well as the extention from your back upwards, while German (and I guess other languages as well...) distinguish between  rear part of the neck (dt. "Nacken") and the 'whole thing' (dt. "Hals")

English too differentiates between nape (back of the neck), throat (front part), and neck (the whole thing.) We just don't have a word for nape yet.

[Plumps]

I stand corrected
Thanks for telling me - good to know that there is still something to learn in English for me
So that would speak for a more general term (neck) with differenciations for nape and throat ...

[Feiane]

I think "throat" refers to the INSIDE

as in "back of the throat"
as in the top of one's esophagus

[roger]

it's both

[tsrräfkxätu]

I think "throat" refers to the INSIDE

as in "back of the throat"
as in the top of one's esophagus

So... when I cut yer throat, I need to reach in first? Yarrr!

[NeotrekkerZ]

Not necessarily, consider the sentence "I grabbed him by the throat."  You're obviously not going inside there.

[roger]

(i think she was kidding)

[tsrräfkxätu]

She was indeed! She can't help it. She now apologizes.