tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon May 10 22:20:41 1999
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Re: museum
In a message dated 5/3/1999 2:13:29 PM US Mountain Standard Time,
sboozer@midway.uchicago.edu writes:
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I agree that the Klngons wouldn't care about the ancient Terran Muses.
What is
this building called (and what is the derivation thereof) in those Earth
languages that have *not* borrowed/adapted the Greek/European word "museum"?
E.g. Arabic? Japanese? Chinese? Hindi? Navajo? etc.
In the meantime, how about *{bey' qach} or *{bey'qach}? >>
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bey'qach sounds pretty good to me. The Chinese is bo-wu-guan, meaning
literally "many things hall."
peHruS