tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 22 13:58:33 2007
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Re: Klingon WOTD: pel'aQ (noun)
- From: Doq <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: pel'aQ (noun)
- Date: Mon, 22 Jan 2007 16:57:59 -0500
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On Jan 22, 2007, at 4:41 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> Voragh:
>>>> Category: Body Parts
>>>
>>> Is it really? If the plural of {QIm} "egg" is {QImmey} (KGT p.
>>> 88), I would
>>> expect the plural of {pel'aQ} to be ?{pel'aQmey} even though
>>> it's never
>>> been attested. OTOH KGT p.92 says that the shell of an animal is
>>> {nagh
>>> DIr} and I would expect the plural ?{nagh DIrDu'} as this
>>> definitely is a body part.
>
> Doq:
>> QIm 'oH yInbogh Dol naQ. jatlhlaHbe'. vaj law'DI', QImmey DIpong.
>> pel'aQ 'oH Dol 'ay'. vaj law'DI', pel'aQDu' DIpong.
>>
>>>> Additional Notes:
>>>> KGT p. 88. Curiously, eggs ({QImmey}) do not play a large role
>>>> in the
>>>> Klingon diet as food items in their own right, though they are
>>>> mixed into
>>>> many sauces, usually along with the pieces of shell ({pel'aQ}),
>>>> for flavor
>>>> and texture. The small eggs of the Tokvirian [sic] skink
>>>> ({toqvIr lung}),
>>>> however, are often eaten whole, shell and all, usually by the
>>>> handful.
>>
>> Mmmmmmm. toqvIr lung. ghaytan toqvIr lung QImmey vISopqa'laHpa'
>> qaSqa' poH 'Iq. tera'Daq qub 'eb.
>
> Perhaps when eggs are considered as food items, they can take the
> suffix
> {-mey} instead of the body part suffix {-Du'}. Maybe this is
> because one
> eats so many of them (i.e. "usually by the handful") they are no
> longer
> viewed as body parts.
Eggs are not body parts. They are living beings, incapable of using
language. The plural uses {-mey}. Egg shells are body parts. The
plural uses {-Du'}. Eggs and egg shells are not the same thing, and
the rules applying to their plural forms are not identical.
tlhIngan Hol vIlo' 'e' vInIDta' 'ach jIQumHa'ba'pu'.
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
Doq