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Re: if not {pemHov},...

Quvar ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol ghojwI']

Am 09.03.2004 03:53:40, schrieb [email protected]:

>pemHov, juHHov, Hov'a', ... and whatever else we can come up with that is based 
>on Hov works ok for MODERN people; but before the sciences developed people did 
>not know that the sun was merely another star.  

Indeed. The best proof for that is to watch at the terran words: "sun" and "star", "soleil" et "étoile", 
"slunce" i "hvezda", "güneS" ve "yildiz",... just to name a few examples.
These words are all completely different.

And by the way, a *pemHov* (literally a "daylight-star") could also be the "description" of Venus, for 
instance. Okay, Venus is not a star. But who knew about that a century ago? Only those scientists like 
Kepler, Galileo and company who observed the stars. That's how the word "planet" evolved: They 
noticed that they don't move the same way the stars do move on the virtual sky. So they called them 
"rovers", using greek.

I believe that Klingons never cared much about astronomy (i.e. "watching the sky") as terrans did, so 
probably 'found' a new, short word for this "thing" that we call planet, instead of describing what the 
"thing" planet does.
Or maybe they didn't need a new word for planet, but yuQ could have been something else before, like 
"world" for instance. See the resemblance of {yuQ} and {juHqo'}!

Interesting, [theoretical] Klingon ethymology.  ;-)

Quvar.
NB: theoretical! Klingon ethymology based on my Klingon imagination.

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