tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 18 16:01:59 2002
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RE: mu'mey chu' vItIv
peHruS:
>>chIm chemHommey law'.
charghwI':
>>nuq 'oH mu' <chem>'e'? Dalo'qa' 'ach not vIleghpu'. mu' <chemvaH> vISov,
>>'ach mu' <chem> vIleghpu'be' 'ej vIQoypu'be'.
taD:
>{Surchem}Daq {peQ chem}Daq {pIvchem}Daq {HoSchem}Daq je {chem} tu'lu'.
>woj qech Dellaw' mu'vam. 'a nIteb {chem} lo'lu'be'law' net Daj.
Actually {chem} does occur separately, even though it isn't defined
separately in TKD. {peQ chem} "magnetic field" is listed (uniquely) as two
words in the TKD Addendum. (Was this a typo for *{peQchem} I wonder?)
From its four attested uses:
{HoSchem} "energy field"
{HoS} "strength, energy, power"
{peQ chem} "magnetic field"
{peQ} "magnetism"
{pIvchem} "warp field"
*{pIv} [warp?] (a bound morpheme? cf. {pIvghor} & {pIvlob})
{Surchem} "force field"
*{Sur} ???
{chem} seems to be a type of energy or electromagnetic field, aura,
discharge, emanation, etc. Note that we also have {HoSchem} "energy field"
specifically. {chem} is not part of the words for "radiation" {woj},
"deflectors" (begh), or "shields (force field on ship)" {botjan}. (This
last probably refers to the device {jan}, i.e. the field projector(s),
rather than the actual energy field itself.)
I glossed it as "field (of energy}" in my notes, to distinguish it from
other types of fields: {che'ron} "battlefield" and {yotlh} "field [of
land; cf. KGT 89]".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons