tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 17 11:51:06 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: qompogh (noun)
- From: Russ Perry Jr <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: qompogh (noun)
- Date: Thu, 17 Feb 2005 13:49:56 -0600
"Raik Lorenz" <[email protected]> wrote:
> ...Paul wrote:
>> On Thu, 10 Feb 2005 [email protected] wrote:
>>> Klingon word: qompogh
>>> Definition: type of food
>> Hmm. "qompogh" as in 'compost'? :P
> Maybe more like in the German "Kompott", which is, to my native
> speaker knowledge, some type of dessert consisting of fruit in
> its own juice, mainly.
It's in English too, as "compote", which is fruit in syrup.
> If there's a pun intendet, it's probably pretty restrictedly
> understandable, as meseems "Kompott" to be a regionally
> restricted - i.e. there where I come from - vocabulary item
> of German (whoever speaking German on this list knows better
> - feel free to teach me better!).
I don't know German better, but...
The words seems to come from Old French (and that from Latin) as
a lot of cooking/food terms seem to be, but I'm not sure if the
German word does too... See definition (1) at:
http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary?book=Dictionary&va=compote
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