tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Oct 25 08:27:30 2007
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Re: Klingon WOTD: SopwI'pa' (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, October 25, 2007.
>
>Klingon word: SopwI'pa'
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: mess hall
Mentioned by Okrand:
A leg served as food at a banquet in an upper-class household, however,
is likely to be called a {HajDob}, an old word for "limb". In another
context, such as a meal with warriors in a ship's {SopwI'pa'} (mess hall),
only the term {gham} will be heard. [KGT 42]
When I was in the Navy, I never heard anyone aboard ship call this the
"mess hall" (that would be a building ashore), but rather the mess
decks. The officers' {SopwI'pa'} is called the wardroom.
Note two other words: {SopmeH pa'} and {'uQ pa'}:
[{SopmeH pa'}] (literally "room in order to eat" or "room for eating",
from {Sop} "eat" plus {-meH} "in order to") is a reasonable way to say
"eating room" or "dining room". I also don't think Klingons, not being
prone to stand on ceremony where eating is concerned, would object to
eating breakfast in something called a {'uQ pa'} "dinner room", a common-
type noun-noun construction. [st.klingon June 1997]
Related nouns:
{Qe'} restaurant
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons