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Re: chuv

Quvar ([email protected])

• From: Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: chuv
• Date: Tue, 02 Mar 2004 01:33:06 +0100
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Am 01.03.2004 21:27:28, schrieb "David Trimboli" <[email protected]>:

>Well, there's {QongDaq}, but it's not a locative word: it's quite definitely
>lexicalized as a normal noun.  {QongDaqDaq} is a legal word+suffix
>{QongDaqDaq Qotbe' tlhInganpu'}.

I see {Daq} as a noun here, meaning "site, location", so {DaqDaq} is "at the site".

{QongDaq} is literally "sleep-site", and resembles very much "sleeping place".
Probably from an ancient Klingon word {QongmeH Daq} "place to sleep".

Quvar.

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