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Re: chuv

Quvar ([email protected])

• From: Lieven L. Litaer (Quvar) <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: chuv
• Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 03:26:07 +0100
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

Am 03.03.2004 00:19:42, schrieb "...Paul" <[email protected]>:

>> De'wI'?
>
>Ooo, yeah.  We have /De'/ as a noun (data, information), but /De'wI'/
>looks like it would indicate there should be some kind of verb /De'/,
>which apparently we don't have...  Interesting.

In turkish (which I'm learning at the moment) there is a suffix with a similar meaning that can be attached 
to nouns. For instance "kebap" is a turkish dish, a "kebapci" is someone who makes and sells them.

A {De'wI'} is literally "thing which does data". I think that's pretty close, don't you?  :-)

Another possible [theoretical] Klingon ethymology is that this is as usual a shortened form of something 
like {De' **wI'}, a "data **er".

Quvar.

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