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Re: (KLBC?) Word for 'shop'?

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

magicspiderwebb wrote:
> > noone has suggested {SuyDaq}
> > for "shop", and if I may say so, it's not a bad idea at all.

Of course, it could also mean guildhall, chamber of commerce, etc.

peHruS:
>I tend to dislike any extensive use of adding {Daq} to form nouns.  It just
>doesn't feel all that Klingon to me.  But, then MO might like it.  So, it's
>only my two cents.

Hard to say if it's "all that Klingon" or not since we only have a single 
example of a compound noun with {Daq}:  {QongDaq} "bed".  (I was surprised 
when I did my search; I could have sworn there were at least a couple of 
other!)

I think a better model is {chenmoHlu'meH Daq} "construction site" from the 
BoP Poster, and we have several canon examples of the {VERBmeH NOUN} 
pattern - starting with {ghojmeH taj} boy's knife ("knife for learning") 
from KCD - so at least we know this pattern more "Klingon".  So WRT a 
"shop" or "store" we could posit (off the top of my head):

   *{mechmeH Daq} - from {mech} "trade"

   *{tlhongmeH Daq} - from {tlhong} "barter, bargain"

   *{je'meH Daq} - from {je'} "buy, purchase"

   *{ngevmeH Daq} - from {ngev} "sell"

   *{DIlmeH Daq} - from {DIl} "pay for"

   {malja' HuqmeH Daq} - from {malja' Huq} "transact business"

   etc.

depending on your point of view.



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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