tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 17 08:37:01 1996
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Re: juHrob
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>Date: Wed, 17 Jul 1996 05:44:11 -0700
>From: [email protected] (Frieder Butzmann)
>I'm writing (I'm trying to write) some lyrics in kligon language! The
>lyrics are about "homesickness".
>For translation of "homesick", I took home (=juH) and disease (=rob) from TKD.
>My question: Is it okay to translate "homesick" as "juH rob"? Do I have to
>use a dash: "juH-rob" or should I write it in one word like "juHrob"???
>Thanks for answers!
"Sickness" is "rop", not "rob." We haven't seen any use of hyphens,
really, so I'd expect a compound or maybe a noun-noun.
On the other hand, I don't know that your translation is very good.
"Homesickness" as "juHrop" makes me think of some disease that is
indigenous to your home, perhaps a kind of syndrome you get from staying
home too long and not getting out in the fresh air, or a hereditary disease
of your nuclear family. The meaning of "nostalgia" (literally "home-pain",
I think) for "homesick" is of course an English idiom, and idioms are
notorious for not translated cleanly. If I said "bayit-choleh" in Hebrew,
Israelis would be mystified (confirmation, Doq?). The term is, I think
"mitga`gea` labayit" or something like that (longing for home).
~mark
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