tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sun Apr 16 00:09:17 2000
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RE: KLBC Questions One
ja' Voragh:
>FYI, {HoS} appears in a few noun phrases of a technical or engineering nature:
>
> HoS choHwI' transtator
> HoS Hal power supply, power source
> HoS lIngwI' power generator
>
>as well as in compound nouns:
>
> HoSchem energy field
> HoSDo' energy beings (pl.)
Watch it -- these last two aren't necessarily "compound nouns". We don't
actually have a separate noun {*chem} in the dictionary, though the phrase
{peQ chem} is good evidence that one exists. {HoSDo'}, however, probably
has nothing to do with a hypothetical present-day noun {Do'}. Its origin
might have been as a compound noun, or it might have been something else
entirely (consider {qa'meH} for an example of "something else entirely").
-- ghunchu'wI' 'utlh