tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Aug 10 17:52:48 1999
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Re: KLBC / nuqDaq mu'vam?
pIl'o' wrote:
: tetlhvamvo' 'ay' vImughlI' 'e' vInID. 'ach <wab> vISamlaHbe'.
[Since this is just a request for new vocabulary and I happen to have my
notes open just now, I hope BG pagh won't mind if I play through.]
{wab} seems to be a general noun meaning "sound, noise".
Related nouns include {QoQ} "music" ("meaning musical sound, whether or not
a Klingon voice is participating in producing this sound" (MO in HolQeD
2.4), {QIch} "speech (i.e. vocal sounds)", {ghogh} "voice" and {bom} "song,
chant".
: ps: mu'vam Halchu'meH nuq?
qayajbe'. {Hal} is a noun meaning "source, supply" and so can't take verb
suffixes. Do you mean, "What's the source for this word?" {mu'vam Hal 'oH
nuq'e'?}
Marc Okrand first used it just this year (2/99) in a post on how Klingons
tell time on the Star Trek: Continuum newsgroup startrek.klingon, which
Lawrence published in HolQeD 8.1 (March 1999). The example Okrand used was:
'arlogh wab Qoylu'pu'?
How many times has someone heard the sound?
How many times has the sound been heard?
which is a traditional, non-military way of asking, "What time is it?"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons