pengmey (was Re: KLBC: Conjunctions for Numbers)

[Alan Anderson <aranders@netusa1.net>]

ja' peHruS:
>mark@kli.org writes:
>[...]
> probably should have used {peng} instead of {cha}; maybe that's a hair less
> controversial (since Klingon singular nouns can at least usually also be
> plural) >>
>=============
>DaH jIQoch.

SuQoch SoH TKD je.

>law'DI' Doch qelbogh tlhIngan Hol DIp, mojaq {-mey} wIlo'nISbe'
>net Sov.   'ach cha law' DellaHbe' DIp {peng} 'e' vIHar.  wa' peng neH
>wIghajtaHvIS DIp {peng} wIlo'laH 'e' vIQub.  law'DI', DIp {cha} wIlo'nIS 'e'
>vIQub.

Page 24 says explicitly that the singular forms of the irregular plural
nouns may have a plural suffix added.  It also tells us that it carries
the "scattered all about" idea: {pengmey} "torpedoes all over the place".

-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh