tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jul 30 09:02:45 1996
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Re: Skybox season five klingon cards
- From: [email protected] (Soqra'tIS)
- Subject: Re: Skybox season five klingon cards
- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 11:33:23 -0400
On 7/30/96 at 7:43 AM, Mark E. Shoulson wrote the following:
<...SnIp...>
> >S27 Klingon Homeworld
>
> >The principal planet of the Klingon Empire, Qo'noS is usually referrred
>to as
> >simply "The Homeworld." This is where the Klingon Great hall is
>located, the
> >center of the Klingon government. Qo'noS is a class-M planet with an
>oxygen/
> >nitrogen atmosphere.
>
> >------
>
> >S27 gives us the words for oxygen ({yInSIp} "life gas") and nitrogen
>({voQSIp}
> >"choke gas"), as well as the word {roD} which I take to mean "usually" (but
> >hadn't Okrand already given us {motlh} as "usually" on SP3?)
>
> yInSIp and voQSIp are interesting. I recall that the Hebrew (Modern, of
> course) word for nitrogen is "chanqan" from the root CH.N.Q. meaning
> "suffocate". I suspect they got that from German or something (any German
> speakers can confirm the German word for nitrogen? I know the Hebrew and
> German words for oxygen are similar, both based on the root for "sour.")
> Perhaps Okrand was thinking something similar.
Oxygen = Sauerstoff
Nitrogen = Stickstoff
Helium = Helium
Hydrogen = Wasserstoff
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