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RE: KLBC: New to the List

DloraH ([email protected]) [Hol po'wI']



> >>>There have been a couple of proper names that didn't conform to
> >>>this, but they have all been borrowed from other languages, like
> >>>{jon luq pIqarD}.
> 
> Interestingly, the string {-arD-} is present in just one 
> other word that I know of:
> 
>   Cardassia is both {qarDaS} and {qarDaSya'}.  [KGT p. 142]
> 
> Note BTW that this is another foreign proper name.  This 
> tells us that Klingons view the combination {qarD} as 
> pronounceable, even though it doesn't appear in any native 
> tlhIngan Hol words.

But in {qarDaS} and {qarDaSya'} the r and the D are in separate syllables.
qar-DaS, qar-DaS-ya'
All being CVC.


DloraH






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