tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Mar 21 21:15:03 1998
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Re: to charghwI'
- From: "William H. Martin" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: to charghwI'
- Date: Sun, 22 Mar 1998 00:15:09 -0500 (Eastern Standard Time)
- Priority: NORMAL
On Thu, 19 Mar 1998 17:46:25 -0800 (PST) Michael & Enilce De
Ramo <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello charghwI'.
>
> I was looking at your "New Klingon Words" page at the KLI and you have
> listed some words which I would like you to explain to me:
>
> QongDaqDaq - a noun in bed ???
The whole reason I annotate these things is so that you can look
up the source yourself:
[QongDaqDaq - (n) in bed {TKW page 40}]
If you pull up The Klingon Way and look on page 40, you find:
QongDaqDaq Qotbe' tlhInganpu'. "Klingons do not lie in bed."
I chose to include this as a word to prove that {QongDaq} was
indeed a Klingon word meaning "bed" and not just a noun use of
the verb {Qong} to speak of a sleeping place. The {-Daq} on
{QongDaq} is not a suffix. It is part of the root noun. I
thought that was worthy of mention.
> ghojmeH taj - what makes it different from a normal {taj} ?
If you get the Klingon CD, you can go to the Language Lab and
find out. It is a knife for a boy; one to help him learn how to
use a knife, hence a knife in order to learn.
> Thanks,
>
> juplI'
charghwI'