tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 31 11:09:10 2002
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Re: Klingon WOTD: mI' (n)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, December 31, 2002.
>
>Klingon word: mI'
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: number
Examples from canon:
nuq mI'lIj, tera'ngan?
What is your number, Terran? CK
And, for those interested, there's a brief note on Klingon {mI'mey} in KGT
p.73:
The independent words for the numbers three through nine were not originally
a part of the Klingon counting system, but they had to come from somewhere.
The musical scale is the likely source. The word for the fourth musical
tone,
{loS}, began to be used for the number four, and so on through the
eighth tone,
{chorgh}. (The origins of the words {Hut} [nine] and the suffix {-maH}, used
in the words for ten, twenty, thirty, and so on, are obscure.)
--
Voragh "Damage control is easy. Reading
Klingon--that's
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons hard!" (Montgomery Scott to
Kirk, STIV)