tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 14 21:55:14 1997
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Re: humanoids
On Tue, 14 Oct 1997, qoror wrote:
|ghItlh Qov
|>They both have the same definition. I don't believe {ghot} has ever been
|>used in canon and I'm not sure about {nuv}.
|
|{ghot} was in TKW: {reH tay' ghot tuqDaj je}, if I remember correctly. But
|there doesn't seem to be a distinction.
lugh qoror. I posted the canon on these over the weekend, but since my post
hasn't shown up yet in my mailbox, I'll post it again...
On Sun, 12 Oct 1997, Voragh wrote:
|ghot "person (humanoid)":
| ghotpu' tamey
| Personnel Files (ST:Communicator #104)
|
| reH tay' ghot tuqDaj je.
| One is always of his tribe. (TKW)
| (lit. "A person and his house are always together.")
|
|nuv "person (humanoid)":
| butlh ghajbogh nuv'e' yIHo'.
| Admire the person with dirt under his fingernails. (TKW)
|
|And while we're on the topic, here are some related words:
|yoq "humanoid":
| yoq yIn yuQ 'oH Qo'noS'e'
| Qo'noS is a class-M planet (S27)
|Dep "being (nonhumanoid)":
| Not attested.
|HoSDo' "energy beings" (pl. only?)
| Not attested.
|Dol "entity":
| Some people use this in the sense of "lifeform." TKW however shows this
| is more like a "unity" or "a whole":
| wa' Dol nIvDaq matay'DI' maQap.
| We succeed together in a greater whole.
Are {ghot} and {nuv} used in KGT? So far, I can't discern any distinction
between the two terms.
Voragh