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Re: Klingon WOTD: qum (v)

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

Raik Lorenz:
> > But as I already mentioned, I'll drop this "word" anyway, as it just =
does
> > not fit into Klingon, apperently.
> > A solution might still be {che'meH vaSvo'}, wouldn't it?

Quvar:
>Would be {che'meH vaS}, without -vo'.

Indeed.  {vo'} is the verb "propel".

>For Klingons, this is simply the {vaS'a'} "Great Hall" what you're looki=
ng
>for.  Check Skybox card 25:
>
>tlhIngan vaS'a' Klingon Great Hall
>
>juHqo'Daq vaS'a' tu'lu'. ngoch luchermeH 'ej wo' San luwuqmeH pa' ghom
>tlhIngan yejquv DevwI'pu'. DaH che' ghawran. yejquv DevwI' moj ghawran '=
e'
>wuqta' cho' 'oDwI' Dapu'bogh janluq pIqarD HoD.
>
>On the Homeworld, there is a great hall where the leaders of the Klingon
>High Council meet to determine policy and decide upon the fateof the
>Empire. Gowron currently presides, named leader of the High Council by
>Captain Jean=ADLuc Picard, who was acting as Arbiter of Succession.

The closest thing we have for "fortress" is {waw'} "base (military=20
term)".  Interestingly, in SkyBox card S27 ({Qo'noS} "Klingon Homeworld")=
,=20
the famous Great Hall is called a {waw'}:

   pa' 'oHtaH vaS'a''e'.  tlhIngan qum waw' 'oH.
   This is where the Klingon Great Hall is located, the center of
   the Klingon government.

 From what we've seen of it, the Great Hall certainly looks like a=20
fortress.  It makes sense that it may well have started out as one, a=20
secure base from which the government ruled (e.g. the Kremlin in Moscow).



--=20
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons=20

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