tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jan 08 14:41:02 2002
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RE: quick question about the new Klingon words in HolQeD
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: RE: quick question about the new Klingon words in HolQeD
- Date: Tue, 08 Jan 2002 13:40:35 -0600
- In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
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