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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: loH

Brent Kesler ([email protected])

From: Brent Kesler <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: loH
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2014 15:34:47 -0400
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<div dir="ltr"><br><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 15, 2014 at 2:55 PM, Brad Wilson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]"; target="_blank">[email protected]</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="black" face="arial">
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<div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="font-size:9pt"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">&lt;loHwI&#39;&gt; is understood to be a magistrate, which in my understanding is akin to a judge. </font></tt><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">The word magistrate comes from the Latin magistratus (administrator), which seems closer to the meaning of the </span><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">both &lt;loH&gt; (administer) and &lt;loH&gt; (administration).</span></pre></div></div></font></blockquote><div>I had some vague sense that a magistrate is more than a judge, so I went to wikipedia looking for answers:</div><div><br></div><div>    &quot;[...] in ancient Rome, a magistratus was one of the highest government officers and possessed <b>both judicial and executive powers</b>.&quot; (Emphasis added)<br></div><div>    <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magistrate";>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magistrate</a><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left-width:1px;border-left-color:rgb(204,204,204);border-left-style:solid;padding-left:1ex"><font color="black" face="arial"><div style="font-size:10pt;color:black"><div style="margin:0px;font-size:12px;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)"><pre style="font-size:9pt"><tt><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif">A somewhat related verb is &lt;noH&gt; (judge, estimate), from which we might derive &lt;noHwI&#39;&gt; (a judge), but c</font></tt><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:9pt">ertainly a magistrate &quot;administers&quot; justice, so this might point to a distinction between &lt;loHwI&#39;&gt; and &lt;noHwI&#39;&gt;.</span></pre></div></div></font></blockquote><div>bo&#39;DIjDaq loHwI&#39; tu&#39;lu&#39;, &#39;ej chaq Olympics-Daq noHwI&#39; tu&#39;lu&#39;. </div><div><br></div><div>bI&#39;reng</div></div></div></div>

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