You've got a point, Cluin. "Ungawa" means just about anything you want it to mean. The trick is in the subtle inflection and tone used by the cunning apeman, which can change the meaning radically. When you give it that certain guttural tone on the first syllable, it's a terrible insult in elephantese, but when you do it low and huskily, it means what you indicated in the Jane example, and so on...

As for Gary Larson, yeah, I know he writes it "Oomgawa", but he's wrong... :-)

- LH