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Re: Vocab #4

From:Elliott Belser <renyard@...>
Date:Monday, April 22, 2002, 22:36
>En réponse à Elliott Belser <renyard@...>: > >> >> The language is Ng'and'ana, and Pulman is from PULMonary system... >> you know, heart, veins arteries cetra cetra. >> > >Except that the PULMonary system refers exclusively to the lungs, the trachee >(English word unknown... :( ), the larynx, etc... the air-breathing system >(from Latin pulmo, pulmonis, which gave in French poumon: lung). Heart, veins, >arteries, etc... are referred to as the blood system in English, >simply (and in >French it's "système sanguin"), or at least IIRC.
Oops. Well, so it's still Pulm. What are the lungs now zatz vat I vanna know.