tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 22 08:18:43 2001
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Re: Klingon WOTD: Hatlh (n)
> Klingon word: Hatlh
> Part of Speech: noun
> Definition: country, countryside
Qov wrote:
: <Hatlh> QoyDI' tlhIngan, nuq qel? mu'vetlh vIQoyDI' jIH, HuDHommey,
: tI je vIqel. pa' tI SoptaH Ha'DIbaHmey tIn. tIr poch wIjwI'pu'.
: pIm'a' tlhIngan juH qo' Hatlh?
maSovbe'. {Hatlh} hasn't been used in canon by Okrand.
In Crispin's novel SAREK - for which Okrand provided the Klingon - {HatlhHurgh}
is a place name on Kronos.
In the new KLI <ghIlghameS>, DloraH often uses {Hatlh} for "wilderness". A
Klingon might well call the raw, untamed wilderness - i.e "nature, tooth and
nail" - {Hatlh tlhab} since wild fruits or vegetables not grown on a farm are
called {naH tlhab} (KGT 89) and wild, undomesticated animals are also called
{tlhab}:
tlhab; ngem Ha'DIbaH rur
free (independent) as a forest animal KGT
Related vocabulary includes {Sep} "region, country", which is more of an
administrative or geographical term (KGT p.16f):
Within the land mass are distinct areas, some of which are
demarcated geographically (divided by a mountain range, for
example), while the boundaries of others seem rather arbitrary,
the result, no doubt, of ancient power struggles. A specific
area whose borders are definable, by whatever means, is normally
called a {Sep}, commonly translated as "region", though, since
the regions were politically distinct in the past, "country"
might have at one time been just as appropriate a translation.
{ghor} "surface (of planet), {puH} "land}, {yotlh} "field (of land)" as well as
{yav} "ground" and {lam} "dirt". *{Hatlh'a'} "continent" has appeared on the
KLI web site.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons