tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 21 06:06:57 1996
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Re: question
- From: "Dr. Lawrence M. Schoen" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: question
- Date: Fri, 21 Jun 1996 06:06:57 -0700
> In the book the Klingon Way the have DevwI' meaing leader. In Star
> Trek: Klingon one of the Klingon crew members calls Gowron it. Does
> this mean that it also means captian, onne in authority, highest power
> symbol, and other stuff like that?
Katie,
You're trying too hard. Look at the word, look at its parts.
<Dev> is a verb meaning "lead, guide"
the suffix <-wI'> nominalizes a verb as "one who does the action."
Thus, <DevwI'> is a "leader" and that's all you have to do.
How much weight you choose to put on the word "is he just the person showing us
the way to the canned spinach in aisle 12 of the supermarket" or "is he the
person guiding our species to a brave new era of galactic domination" is up to
you.
Lawrence
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