tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 01 19:26:15 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 22:26:01 -0400 (EDT)
> jatlh Voragh:
> > 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.
> -Eodrakken
> I was afraid you might say that. A word I was really wanting
> recently was "starlight" (Hovwov?). Have we ever seen that
> in canon?
Or sunlight. What's the word for "sun", if there is one?
Would it be /Hov'a'/ (i.e. "major star")? Would /*Hov'a'wov/
be sunlight then?
It would be most interesting if Klingons referred to their
sun (is there a name for the sun of Qo'noS?) as "major
star", because it would imply that their astronomers realized
that the sun is a kind of star early in their history.
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