Talk:Old Gungan

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[edit] Strictly Old Gungan

Are these words/phrases identified as Old Gungan in the Galactic Phrase Book and Travel Guide? Because most of them look Basic-based to me, and even the ones with plausible Gungan elements contain Basic too...

The only ones that I can see plausible Gungan elements in are:

bodooka or booma energy ball

bo-ganya dome-shaped force field

bongo Gungan submersible

boopjak big mistake

doopeewee landspeeder or other repulsorlift land craft

ganya sky

garbareeno trash (though this looks like "garbage" to me)

Grandee-Oola Gungan Council Chamber of Judgement (though "Grandee" is obviously "grand" or simply "grandee")

heyblibber luxury bongo

keeclumbsee good manners (something to do with "clumsy"?)

logreena forest ("greenery"?)

lopity-pie kaadu fodder ("pie" is simply "pie")

Oma-Oma chief Gungan diety

ome-goosa deep ocean depths

opadda fire

paddlewompy swimming underwater ("paddle" is "paddle")

skeesh rain

skeebeetle spacecraft ("Skee" may be Old Gungan; probably just "skybeetle")

spark-ouchee Gungan electropole ("spark-ouch-y"; entirely pidgin Basic)

stickgooshy swamp ("stick-[something]-y" - mostly pidgin Basic)

toboo nuki term of endearment aimed at spouses/children

tongue-grabben eating ("tongue-grabbing")

umi-yumi Gungan dessert made of sulfured fatfish

wangzapper blaster ("zapper" at least, is Basic)

whizbooma energy ball catapult ("whiz-boomer"; like "whiz-bang"; but boomer/bodooka may be Old Gungan)

yanzawa cavalry charge

Hmm? --McEwok 15:18, 27 February 2006 (UTC)

• All these are mentioned as words that are difficult to understand without a knowledge of Old Gungan - words like "yanzawa" don't seem to be very derivative of Basic. What's your gripe? Cutch 04:24, 28 February 2006 (UTC)
  • No gripe on these ones; they're the only ones that seem to have a substantial Old Gungan element. But the ones I left off, like beeg buba or farseein, look just like pidgin Basic to me - "big bubble" and "far-seeing (device)" in those two examples; I see you've changed "words whose etymology comes strictly from Old Gungan" to "words whose etymology comes largely from Old Gungan", but I wonder if there's still a difference between a strictly etymological derivation and words where a knowledge of Old Gungan (perhaps semantic/grammatical) helps with understandng... --McEwok 11:15, 28 February 2006 (UTC)