tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Mar 05 22:38:47 2006
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Re: word histories
- From: "QeS 'utlh" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: word histories
- Date: Mon, 06 Mar 2006 16:38:35 +1000
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ghItlhpu' naHQun, ja':
>I'm trying to gather any information we have on the formation
>of Klingon words, i.e. {qa'vIn} is based on the Terran word "caffine" (sp?)
Caffeine.
>{'I'} has a lengthy, but funny story behind it...
>Anything we know about how the words came up (not counting
>the numerous puns, there's a wiki page on that) would be helpful.
Are you talking about internal history, or external history? I've done a
little bit on internal etymology, but as for external word history I'm not
sure how much help I could be.
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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