tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 12 07:48:55 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: qach (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, October 12, 2005.
>
>Klingon word: qach
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: building, structure
Used by Okrand:
meQtaHbogh qachDaq Suv qoH neH
Only a fool fights in a burning house. TKW
qachvetlh vIDab
I live in/at that building. (st.klingon 7/99)
Discussed by Okrand:
A minority of children pronounce {tlh} as {ch}, particularly at
the end of syllables. For example, {qatlh} (why) is pronounced
{qach}, and {botlh} (middle) is {boch}. Though the resulting
forms may be real, though different, words ({qach}, for example,
is "structure, building," and {boch} means "be shiny"), there is
seldom any confusion because the identically pronounced words
are used in such different contexts. (KGT 32)
{rav'eq} refers to the ceiling of any room (though, more narrowly,
it refers to the ceiling of a room that has a room above it, as
in a multistory structure); {pa' beb} refers specifically to the
ceiling of a room which is on the top (or only) story of a struc-
ture. (HolQeD 8.3)
Cf. also the noun {juH} "house" (as always, not to be confused with {tuq}
"house, tribe, ancestral unit").
For "structure" in the metaphorical sense, note the phrases {qutluch patlh}
"kut'luch rank" (i.e. "hierarchical structure" [KGT 110-11]) and {tlham
ghaj} "have gravity" (slang meaning "have structure, order" [KGT 165]).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons