L E P/Animals

Lexical Expansion Project

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Categorizing the animals

worm (ngawng) (C)

In order to make animal-classification not too Earth-like, "ngawng" could mean any longish animal, more or less creeping/crawling on surfaces, regardless whether it is a vertebrate or invertebrate. So also snakes(?), centipedes and alike would be "ngawng".

fish (B)

Maybe the generic Na'vi-term for "fish" includes only water-breathing vertebrates, while there is one (or two) different term(s) for water-living invertebrates: maybe the invertebrates are classified according to their seize: clearly visible ones and nearly unvisible ones.

flying animal (B)

Maybe there is a generic term for vertebrate animals equipped with wings (ikran, toruk, tetrapteron and alike), in contrast to a term for vertebrates, which fly using other methods (like the "fan lizard"). How about flying "insects"? Do they count into one group?

mammals / vertebrates, which are not mammals (C)

vertebrates, which walk on their (six) legs (B)

Maybe there is a general term to include e. g. pa'li, nantang, (even Na'vi)?

domestic/bonded animal (B)

Is there a general term? Maybe different depending on whether bonded to an individual, like the banshee, or merely tame, like the pa'li?

predatory animal (vs.) prey animal (B)

Maybe even a three-fold system according to the food-chain: (1) non-predatory prey animals, (2) animals that are both predators and prey, (3) predatory animals that themselves have few predators

scavenger, to scavenge, carrion (C)

Thanators are scavengers when there is no live prey available.

The dire-wolves scavengened on the dead strumbeest.

carrion: the body or remains of a dead animal that are 'too far gone' to be good for anything but scavenger food

Individual animals

parasitic worm (C-D)

bug ()

hì'ang ?

fan lizard ()

Since the "Survival Guide" explains, that there are even Na'vi-dances modelled after this lizard's movement, it seems to be of noticable importance.

Parts of animals

fur (B)

bioluminescence ()

whisker etc. ()

the sensory plates/tendrils on e.g. a thanator