tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jun 25 09:40:48 1997
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Re: verengan juHqo'
- From: "Mark E. Shoulson" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: verengan juHqo'
- Date: Wed, 25 Jun 1997 12:40:45 -0400 (EDT)
- In-reply-to: <[email protected]>(message from Steven Boozer on Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:25:14 -0700 (PDT))
>Date: Mon, 23 Jun 1997 11:25:14 -0700 (PDT)
>From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
>
>: Marian Schwartz wrote:
>: > The words for types of races are I believe conventionally the planet plus
>: > {ngan}. For instance, we don't have "romulan," we have "romuluSngan."
>:
>: Conventionally, but there are exceptions. For instance, the Ferengi
>: homeworld is Ferenginar, but the {tlhIngan Hol} word is {verengan},
>: rather than {verengInarngan}.
>:
>: -mIqIraH
>
>Keep in mind, though, that "Ferenginar" was coined *after* Okrand came up
>with {verengan} so it's an exception. I believe we've only known the
>official name of the Ferengi homeworld for the last 2 seasons of DS9 or so.
>Didn't one character once refer to "Feringar" before the name stabilized?
>
>OTOH {*verengInarngan} is pretty long even for a Klingon noun, so maybe it
>was shortened over time. How much time we don't know, though the Klingons do
>seem to have known of the Ferengi before the Federation encountered them.
Note also "vulqangan" instead of "*vulqanngan" There's some reasonable
contraction at work in Klingon.
~mark