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Re: Klingon WOTD: nalqaD (noun)
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: nalqaD (noun)
- Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2006 10:02:13 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Holtej, ja':
>Klingon word: nalqaD
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: mate challenge
>Source: KGT (220 KE, 249 EK)
jang Voragh, ja':
>Related verbs are {Hay'} "duel" and {Hay'chu'} "duel to the death".
To add to this, {nalqaD} is etymologically an old noun-noun compound *{nal
qaD} "mate challenge". {qaD} is attested in modern Klingon with the meaning
"challenge" (both noun and verb); the word *{nal} is no longer found on its
own, but is well attested in compounds, cf. the words {be'nal} "wife",
{loDnal} "husband", {'IrneHnal}, {tennuSnal} "uncles by marriage",
{'e'mamnal}, {me'nal} "aunts by marriage" and {'e'nal} "one who married into
the family". From this, the old word *{nal} probably has the meaning
"spouse" or "one who is related or linked by marriage".
Savan,
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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