tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jun 06 06:57:45 1997
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RE: KLBC: Words for assassin & blade
- From: "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: KLBC: Words for assassin & blade
- Date: Thu, 5 Jun 97 22:06:41 UT
[email protected] on behalf of Neal Schermerhorn wrote:
> perhaps the "assassin's knife" was originally a knife belonging
> to a warrior named 'aSaSIn or something like it?
Careful! That's (more or less) the *English* word's derivation. In Klingon,
the word we're considering is {qutluch} "assassin's knife." It *is* possible
that there was some renowned killer named {qutluch}, and that this was the
sort of knife he used, but this is really just making things up. We don't
*know* where the word comes from.
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SuStel
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