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Re: Klingon WOTD: qa'meH vIttlhegh (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: qa'meH vIttlhegh (n)
• Date: Thu, 22 Jan 2004 15:31:36 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, January 22, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   qa'meH vIttlhegh
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     replacement proverb
>
>Additional Notes:
>HolQeD v5n1p10.
>This is the only way to say "replacement proverb" currently, but in the 
>past, the common term was the lengthier {quvqa'meH vIttlhegh}, literally, 
>"proverb for (the purpose of) being honored again."

Here's the rest of the quote from HolQeD (5.1:10):

   The word {qa'meH}, clearly a shortened form of {quvqa'meH}, was
   originally used only in the construction of {qa'meH vIttlhegh},
   but, though historically two verb suffixes, it has become accepted
   as a noun in its own right, meaning "replacement" in the sense of
   something that takes over for or is used instead of something that
   is gone or that has been lost. It is not used for a temporary
   substitute or a stand-in; the word for that is {lIw}."

See the entry at the KLI Wiki for a convenient list {qa'meH vIttlheghmey} at:

</wiki/index.php?replacement%20proverb>/wiki/index.php?replacement%20proverb 




-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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