tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Mar 18 15:04:19 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: 'IqnaH QaD (noun)
[email protected] wrote:
> > HolQeD 12:4, p. 8: "Maltz's Reward: Part III." If one were to
> > {chuy} "sneeze," one would likely eject {'IqnaH} "mucus"
Russ Perry Jr:
>I assume the puns may have been noted before, but {chuy} would
>almost certainly seem to come from "achoo"/"(a)chooie" (common
>sneeze onomatopoeia, and {'IgnaH} backwards would resemble
>"hankey" (from handkerchief).
They've been noted.
> > (or sometimes {'IqnaH QaD} "dry mucus").
>
>I might be better off not knowing what {QaD} is, fearing a bad
>pun here...
No pun AFAIK. {QaD} is "be dry" (TKD), "be dried out" (KGT)
> > If one were to {tuS} "cough," one might produce {qo'qaD} "phlegm."
>
>Are there puns that these two come from though?
For {tuS}: tousser (French), tussire (Latin), tossire (Italian), toser
(Spanish) = "to cough"
AFAIK no one has found one for {qo'qaD}. It does look suspicious, doesn't it?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons