tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 01 00:12:39 2000
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Re: Klingon WOTD: wovmoHwI' (n)
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- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: wovmoHwI' (n)
- Date: Mon, 1 May 2000 03:12:23 EDT
jatlh Voragh:
> BTW for the Hallmark Bird-of-Prey Christmas ornament commercial some years
> ago Okrand came up with another way to refer to lights, {wovmoHbogh jan}:
>
> Qapqu' wovmoHbogh janHommey
> It even has working lights!
Heh, I remember seeing that. How did the rest of the advert go?
> However the good news is that because of {maSwov} "moonlight" we suspect
> that there MAY be a noun *{wov}, either historically or just left out of
> what is a relatively small vocabulary. The bad news is that since Okrand
> didn't list it in TKD or KGT, or used it anywhere else, we don't use it
> here on this mailing list.
I was afraid you might say that. A word I was really wanting
recently was "starlight" (Hovwov?). Have we ever seen that
in canon?
-Eodrakken