tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 02 15:53:59 1999
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Re: KLBC: DaHjaj
'oghwI' asked:
I'll let the BG answer the grammar questions, but I can help with this.
: How many words are there that end with a vowel, but dont have a ' after them
: I found one or two in TKD. tI, Do, Ro, cha, ya, He, jo, ta, po, 'a, ghu,
: je, Da & DI and from KGT gho & lu.
It turns out there are more than I thought:
cha, Da, HaSta, lolSeHcha, mara, qItI'nga, ta, tlha'a, va, ya,
'a, 'eDSeHcha, He, je, DI, tI, Do, gho, gho'Do, jo, po, qughDo,
ro, ghu, Hu, lu, yu
(Did I miss one?) Of these, one is an exclamation, and probably phonetic:
va
and three are proper names:
mara, qItI'nga, tlha'a
: I'm sure I read somewhere that every word
: was not supposed to end with a vowel. I can not remember where. If there
: is a rule against this would these be "Left-Overs" from no' Hol? I've
: probably remembered something incorrectly.
The names may well be {no' Hol} vestiges; proper names usually are in most
languages. For example, my name "Steven" is not originally English - or,
rather, Anglo-Saxon - but from the New Testament Greek name *Stephanos*,
itself meaning "crown". As for the Klngons, the {qItI'nga} D-7M cruiser
class is generally recognized as coming from klingonaase; according to John
Ford's FASA module on Klingon ships, *K't'inga* means "bringer of
destruction".
As for the others, who knows? We've learned that Okrand intentionally
included a few exceptions to his general rules, so as to simulate a
"natural" language.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons