Old Gungan
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Old Gungan was the language spoken thousands of years before the Battle of Yavin by the Gungans of Naboo. Over time, much of Old Gungan was supplanted by a form of pidgin Basic commonly called Gunganese. However, Old Gungan words were commonly inserted into Gunganese, creating a mix of terms both familiar and completely alien to non-Gungans.
Translators have based their work largely off the discovery of the Gung Slabs, artifacts that provide translations of Old Gungan into Old Corellian.
[edit] Words in Old Gunganese
The following are words whose etymology comes largely from Old Gungan:
- beeg buba - underwater architectural dome
- bodooka or booma - energy ball
- bo-ganya - dome-shaped force field
- bongo - Gungan submersible
- boopjak - big mistake
- doopeewee - landspeeder or other repulsorlift land craft
- ecouch-eee - Gungan chair/bench
- farseein - Electrobinoculars
- feetwalken - floor
- ganya - sky
- garbareeno - trash
- gasser - stove
- Grandee-Oola - Gungan Council Chamber of Judgement
- hata hata - "Oh my goodness!"
- heyblibber - luxury bongo
- huffmaker - wind
- keeclumbsee - good manners
- logreena - forest
- lopity-pie - kaadu fodder
- mackaneek - droid
- Nocombackie Law - Law of Banishment
- Oma-Oma - chief Gungan deity
- gud - God
- ome-goosa - deep ocean depths
- opadda - fire
- paddlewompy - swimming underwater
- skeesh - rain
- skeebeetle - spacecraft
- spark-ouchee - Gungan electropole
- stickgooshy - swamp
- toboo nuki - term of endearment aimed at spouses/children
- tongue-grabben - eating
- umi-yumi - Gungan dessert made of sulfured fatfish
- wangzapper - blaster
- whizbooma - energy ball catapult
- yanzawa - cavalry charge
