tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Feb 26 05:11:48 2006
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Re: KLBC
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: KLBC
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2006 23:11:12 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Shane MiQogh, ja':
>I'm curious... I was told some where here (i THINK)
>that Klingon verbs were only 3 letters long...
jangpu' ter'eS, ja':
>Most Klingon words (nouns, verbs, whatever) are
>3 letters, CVC, long, but there's no rule that
>they have to be. Many words break that pattern.
To clarify: a syllable can be CV, CVC, CVrgh, CVy', or CVw' (in the last
one, where V is not {o} or {u}). {-oy} is obviously a case unto itself - but
let's not open that can of worms again. {{:)
Most roots in Klingon are a single syllable, but some are longer. Two verbs
(and only two, IIRC) are disyllabic: {lo'laH} "be valuable" and {nughI'}
"twist knuckle into the forehead of"; every other verb is monosyllabic.
Multisyllabic nouns, on the other hand, are rife. {tu'HomI'raH} "something
useless", the only quadrisyllabic root in Klingon, is a noun.
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
(Old roads and old friends will never deceive you)
- Ubykh Hol vIttlhegh
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