RE: Klingon WOTD: wovmoHwI' (n)

[devid@startrekmail.com]

> jatlh Voragh:
> >  However the good news is that because of {maSwov} "moonlight" 
> we suspect
> >  that there MAY be a noun *{wov}, either historically or just 
> left out of
> >  what is a relatively small vocabulary.  The bad news is that 
> since Okrand
> >  didn't list it in TKD or KGT, or used it anywhere else, we don't use it
> >  here on this mailing list.  
 
> -Eodrakken
> I was afraid you might say that.  A word I was really wanting
> recently was "starlight" (Hovwov?).  Have we ever seen that
> in canon?

Or sunlight.  What's the word for "sun", if there is one?
Would it be /Hov'a'/ (i.e. "major star")?  Would /*Hov'a'wov/ 
be sunlight then?

It would be most interesting if Klingons referred to their
sun (is there a name for the sun of Qo'noS?) as "major
star", because it would imply that their astronomers realized
that the sun is a kind of star early in their history.

--
De'vID



 

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