tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Mar 09 21:28:22 2004
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Re: unanalyzable words in tkd
- From: "De'vID jonwI'" <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: unanalyzable words in tkd
- Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 00:27:43 -0500
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qon lay'tel SIvten:
>109 words of no obvious relationship to known words, ...
Some of them are analyzable. Others are due to changed lines
in the scripts of ST:III and ST:V. Yet others are English puns/matches
to English lip movements.
>betleH
Probably <batlh> + <'etlh>, then corrupted. (Not sure if
this derivation is canon, but probably most people think of
it this way.)
>bIghHa'
May be a pun ("big house").
>choljaH
Probably because these "come and go" out of fashion.
>chovnatlh
<chov> (v) "evaluate", <natlh> (v) "use up", which sounds like
what you do to a "specimen".
>chuS'ugh
<chuS> (v) "be noisy"
<'ugh> (v) "be heavy"
>Doghjey
<Dogh> (v) "be foolish"
<jey> (v) "defeat" (note: verb, not noun)
>DungluQ
Possible relation to <Dung> (n) "area above", which is where
the sun is during <DungluQ>.
>bo'DIj, ghIpDIj
Possibly related?
>HablI'
<lI'> is "transmit data (to a place)".
>Hoqra'
<Hoq> (n) "expedition"
>ja'chuq
<ja'> + <-chuq>
>jojlu'
Possible relation to <joj> "area between"?
>leSSov
<leS> "days from now" + <Sov> "knowledge"
>matHa'
I think this was a mispronunciation of the name <matlh>?
>meqba'
Possible relation to <meq> (v) "reason"?
>neHmaH
I think people have always speculated/joked that this means
"we want it". :)
>qelI'qam
Probably a joke on "kilo-"<qam>, i.e. "foot".
>voDleH
Maybe related to <leH>?
>'ISlaH
You mean <'ISjaH>? I think it's from <DIS> + <jar> and
corrupted.
>'urmang
<'ur> "to commit treason". <mang> is "soldier" but that
might be coincidental.
>bobcho', Ha'DIbaH
These are lip-matches.
>qama', ngeHbej, toDuj
These come from changed lines in ST:III and ST:V.
--
De'vID
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