tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 06 10:40:09 1997
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Re: KLBC: lut vIja'
ja' Qov:
>}Ha'DIbaH'a' leghpu' tlhIngan
>
>"The Klingon has seen a monster." "Monster" isn't necessarily the
>translation of {HaDIbaH'a'}, but {Ha'DIbaH} with the augmentative suffix
>{-'a'} is something like an animal, but an order of magnitude bigger, more
>powerful or more important. "Monster" comes to mind.
I think of {Ha'DIbaH'a'} as something like "beast", for what it's worth.
-- ghunchu'wI'