tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Mar 06 09:44:40 2002
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Re: jIH vIchuHlu' - Words mentioned earlier but not in the New Words list?
> I listed/specified in the message tlhIngan for,
> "teacher, mentor", "a condiment", "conquered people", "Death Ritual",
As others have said, the words have to come from Okrand; no problem.
Now, the word "teacher"... we have ghoj "learn". Okrand even included
ghojmoH "teach" (actually "cause to learn"), he did this because people might
not think to look up "learn" and add -moH. Among the first things one learns
are the prefixes and suffixes. Verb suffix -wI' becomes very well known.
Adding -wI' to ghojmoH isn't a big step.
What words with -wI' should get listed, which ones shouldn't. This is why it's
difficult to answer when someone asks "How large is the klingon vocabulary?".
DloraH