tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 20 08:05:18 1999
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Re: KLBC
Dawut wrote:
>qeylIS SaHbogh tetlh muq tlhIngan qum
>The Klingon government have a volume of scroll which concern Kahless.
>
>I am under the impression that {muq} "have a volume of"
>is related to music or sound measurement. I couldn't find
>it in the KGT text when I quick-scanned it, so I don't have
>anything to support its context. Other than my confusion on
>the nature of {muq}, the sentence looks okay to me.
I'll let BG pagh handle the grammar of this sentence; I just want to make
one observation about the vocabulary.
Not sound, but size. {muq} "have a volume of" is a verb of measurement
refering to physical volume. Such as, "The volume of this sphere is 20
cubic meters." Klingon volume is measured in {tlho'ren}. Marc Okrand on
the startrek.klingon newsgroup (October 1997):
The only unit of volume I'm aware of is {tlho'ren}. I'm not
exactly sure how much one {tlho'ren} is, but it seems to be
in the quart/liter range.
Okrand hasn't used {muq} in a sentence yet, but it probably works like
other verbs of measurement:
wej 'ujmey 'ab 'oy'naQ
Painstiks are a little over one meter long (S32)
wejvatlh loSmaH loS vI' vagh wej 'uj 'aD Duj
Length: 120 M
("the ship has a length of 345.53 {'uj}") (BoP Poster)
wejvatlh SochmaH vagh SaD cheb'a'mey ngI' Duj
Mass: 8.7 KT
("the ship weighs 375,000 {cheb'a'}") (BoP Poster)
Thus:
cha'maH tlho'renmey muq 'Iw HIq qeghvam
This barrel of bloodwine has a volume of 20 {tlho'ren}
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons