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.