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Re: Cardassians, Bajorans, and Odo (oh my!)



Has anyone considered the term {mojlaw'wI'}?

charghwI' 'utlh

On Thu, 18 Mar 1999 21:09:36 -0800 (PST) Alan Anderson 
<[email protected]> wrote:

> ja' quljIb:
> >My post concerns how a Klingon would refer to Odo. <'oDo> works as a
> >transcription of the name, but how does a Klingon convey the idea of a
> >changeling? <bIQDo'> or "water (liquid) being", might work.
> 
> nuqjatlh?  {Do'} is a verb meaning "be lucky".  The noun "being" is {Dep}.
> And we already know that {bIQDep} refers to fish.
> 
> >"He who is
> >able to change shape" sounds more accurate to me, but I don't know how to
> >say that in tlhIngan.
> 
> "He who is" gets expressed with the type 9 verb suffix {-wI'}.  "Able to"
> is the type 5 verb suffix {-laH}.  "Change shape" seems to fit {chenchoH}
> "change to take form", based on the rather unwieldy example at the bottom
> of TKD page 45:  {maghoSchoHmoHneS'a'} "may we execute a course?"
> 
> So we get {chenchoHlaHwI'} -- one who can change to take form.  Of course,
> without further explanation, that means pretty much the same thing as the
> terms "allasomorph" or "chameloid" or "shape-shifter":  not a whole lot.
> 
> -- ghunchu'wI'



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