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Re: latlh mu' chu'

R Fenwick ([email protected])

• From: R Fenwick <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: latlh mu' chu'
• Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 16:10:41 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Voragh, jatlh:
>If we're looking for a Klingon term, "retronyms" could be considered
>a form of {no' Hol}, maybe even {mu'mey Doy'}. Can anyone think of
>other Klingon retronyms other than {nagh beQ}?

The one that springs immediately to mind, though it's not quite the
same thing, is {DaSpu'} "boot spike"; IIRC, Okrand says in KGT that
it likely arose after the older word *{pu'} "spike" was appropriated
as the usual term for "phaser".

QeS 'utlh
 		 	   		  

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