tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 07 08:07:38 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mey'
> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, March 07, 2014
>
> Klingon word: mey'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: polygon
> Source: Marc Okrand at European qepHom 1/25/2014[]
AFAIK never used in a sentence.
loS reD mey' quadrilateral (n)
vagh reD mey' pentagon (n)
N.B. Each side of a polygon, triangle, etc. is called a {reD}, literally "exterior wall" (n), not {Dop}.
st.k (12/07/1998): An interior wall (such as a wall separating your living room from your kitchen) is a {tlhoy'}. An exterior wall (that is, a wall which separates the inside of a building from the outside) is a {reD}.
The idea may be that a {reD} separates the inside of something from the outside. E.g.
loS reD mey' quadrilateral (n)
vagh reD mey' pentagon (n)
loS reD 'Impey' pyramid (four-sided base) (n)
vagh reD 'Impey' pyramid (five-sided base) (n)
pa' reD interior face of exterior wall (n)
OTOH {Dop} "side" is used in the sense of areas or places, i.e. this vs. that side:
DopDaq qul yIchenmoH QobDI' ghu'
Set fire on the side when there is danger. (PK)
taj DopmeyDaq nargh cha' tajHom
Two small, secondary blades eject from the knife's sides (SP2)
'echletHom Dopvam yIcha'
card must be turned this side up (MKE)
Sepvetlh latlh DopDaq Hatlh lengtaHvIS qeylIS
On the other side of the land, Kahless traveled the lands (PB)
Note however we have special nouns for {poS} "left (side)" vs. {nIH} "right (side)" and {qoD} "[area] inside" vs. {Hur} "[area] outside".
More words for discussing 2-dimensional shapes:
meyrI' square (n)
letbaQ rectangle (n)
ra'Duch triangle (n)
tajvaj angle (n)
gho circle (n)
tlhegh line (n)
wan be straight (v)
wanHa' be crooked, be bent (v)
I have no idea how to say a "curve" or "curved line". All I could come up with was the noun {yu'egh} "wave".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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