tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 20 10:12:45 2003
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Re: tlhegh
Quvar wrote:
>I wrote:
> >>Does {tlhegh} also mean an empty "line" in a letter??!
By "empty line" do you mean a blank line, separating two blocs of text?
>ghItlh SuStel:
> >jIHvaD qay'be' lo'vam. 'a maSovchu'be'.
{tlhegh chIm} "empty line" - jIHvaD qay'be' je lo'vam'e'.
>I came up with this thought because in German for instance, the word for
>"line" in a letter is completely
>different than the word for "line" as a rope. And that's the definition
>MO gave us.
In addition to the literal, physical meaning of "line, rope", {tlhegh} also
appears as an element in the abstract (metaphorical?) words {mu'tlhegh} and
{vIttlhegh}:
The usual term for "proverb" is {vIttlhegh}, literally "truth rope" and
formed,
no doubt, by analogy with {mu'tlhegh} "sentence" or, literally, "word rope".
(Okrand, HolQeD 5.1)
So using {tlhegh} to refer to a line of text or string of letters seems
fine. (However, {SIrgh} "string, thread, filament" has not been used in
this way AFAIK.)
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