tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Oct 05 18:18:36 2004
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Re: Klingon WOTD: chuyDaH (n-pl)
- From: "QeS lagh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: chuyDaH (n-pl)
- Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2004 11:17:27 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Voragh:
>Cf. {lolSeHcha} "attitude-control thrusters" and {'eDSeHcha}
>"take-off/landing thrusters" -- both also apparently inherently plural
>nouns.
chaq DIpna' {cha} "torpedoes" 'oS mojaqHey {-cha}. Sovbe' matlh, 'ach
{HolQeD wa'maH wa' chovnatlh cha'Daq Marc OkrandvaD <Daj> jatlhlaw'.
QaptaHvIS Human Duj lolSeHcha, jormo' 'ej meQlaw'mo' cha'a' lururbej.
Perhaps that's because {cha} here may be the same {cha} as the inherently
plural form of {peng} "torpedo". For those who haven't read that article in
HolQeD (11:2), Maltz doesn't know, but said to MO that the question was
"interesting". I reckon it's credible; it doesn't take too big a semantic
leap to get from "torpedo" to "rocket" to "thruster".
Savan.
QeS lagh
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