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Re: toughie



In a message dated 96-03-31 07:08:34 EST, Daniel Noll writes:

>The <something>s were:
>(1) There is no word for "road" in my TKD; it is obviously He', thus
>    making He''a' {two glottal stops?) "highway".
>(2) There is also no word for "ghost" in my TKD; must be lomqa'; I have
>    lom down as meaning "corpse", I just had no idea on what the suffix
>    qa' did to a noun.

FYI, in addition to TKD, {qa'} means "spirit."  Therefore, {lomqa'} means
"ghost." (viz Hamlet).

In (1), the Klingon word for road is {He}, not {He'}.

Qapla'

peHruS


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