Re: Another little translation exercise

On Sat, 3 Apr 1999, Adam Walker wrote:

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> Yep, you hijhezh victory, punishment, air, water or food.  So you could
> translate it as eat, drink or inhale.   I could have said "drink
> victory" or "inhale victory" but I chose to translate it eat.  Don't
> know why they have one word to cover all those consepts, but they do.
> Graavgaaln has lots of word with semantic fields far larger or far
> smaller than their English counter parts.  The color words I posted a
> week or so ago are another example of this.
>
I wonder - could _hijhezh_ also be used for 'to smoke', like Nepali
_piunu_, that can mean 'to drink' and 'to smoke'? After all, it isn't
necessary to inhale the smoke you smoke...