tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 13 16:47:21 1998
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Re: betleH mu'
- From: Terrence Donnelly <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: betleH mu'
- Date: Mon, 13 Jul 1998 18:46:12 -0500
At 04:17 PM 7/13/98 -0700, Qov wrote:
>---Terrence Donnelly wrote:
>>
>> I'm trying to label the parts of a betleH. The handles would
>probably be
>> {ret'aqmey}, the blade is of course {'etlh}, the four points of the
>blade
>> I'm calling {Ho'} (by analogy with the {Ho' 'etlh} of a serrated
>blade).
>> Would the word {pach} be understood as the part between the two
>points at
>> each end of the blade?
>
>Me, I'd understand pach or Ho' as the end spikes. Maybe pach joj or
>Ho' joj? Or simply joj in context? This is fiction, right? You
>can't guess what the proper terms would be any more than you'd guess
>"pommel" "cantle" "surcingle" "bars" or "numnah" as parts of a piece
>of equipment for a certain human activity.
I'm not so much trying to guess the correct terminology, as come up
with words that would be significantly descriptive to the average
reader.
-- ter'eS