RE: quick question about the new Klingon words in HolQeD

[Steven Boozer <sboozer@midway.uchicago.edu>]

qurgh:
> I was just looking over the new words in HolQeD and one of them was:
>   bo - feather

Cool; new vocabulary.  Cf. also {tel} "wing" and {ghISDen} "scales".

> Is this supposed to be bo' (prolly from the bo'Degh in bird) 

Good idea.  I haven't received my HolQeD yet, so I'll ask... Are you sure that
isn't *{bo'Dep} (i.e. "feather being"), like {bIQDep} "fish" (i.e. "water
being") from KGT - formed on {Dep} "being (nonhumanoid)"?  

Either way, it's nice to finally have a word for bird.  Now we can retire such
fannish work-arounds as *{chalDep}, *{chalHa'DIbaH}, *{telDep}, *{cherwItlh},
etc.  

> because I thought all Klingon words were at least 3 letters or am I
> mistaken in thinking that?

pagh wrote:
: Most Klingon words are at least three letters, but there are a few that are 
: not. Examples:
:   Da
:   DI
:   ta
:   ghu
:   gho
:   cha
:   bo (yay!!!)

The others are:

  HaSta
  lolSeHcha  
  va  
  ya
  'a
  'eDSeHcha  
  He
  HIvHe
  je
  tI
  Do
   gho'Do
   qughDo
  jo
  po
  ro
  yergho
  Hu
  lu
  yu

Proper names sometimes end in a vowel:

  mara  
  qItI'nga  
  tlha'a  

Hmm... there were more than I thought.  Interestingly, A or O predominate.


-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons