tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 29 07:49:58 2010

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing

[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next]

RE: Hypothetical (reconstructed) vocabulary?

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) 

Voragh:
>And here are five more to add to the list:
>
>  *{ba'}  "official?; ritual/ceremonial?" < {Heghba'} Ritual Suicide,
>          {meqba'} Mek'ba (type of legal proceeding)
>          [cf. {tay} "ceremony, rite, ritual"]
>
>  *{bo'}  "civil, civilian, non-military?" < {bo'DIj} court (n.)
>          [cf. {ghIpDIj} court-martial (v.)]
>
>  *{DIj}  "trial, ordeal?" < {bo'DIj} court (n.), {ghIpDIj} court-
>          martial (v.)
>
>  *{ghep} "age/significant time in life (of person)?" < {nenghep} Age
>          of Ascension, {peHghep} Age of Inclusion
>
>  *{peH}  "inclusion?" < {peHghep} Age of Inclusion

Just found another:

*{jep}  "middle (of time period)?" < {pemjep} midday & {ramjep} midnight (cf. {botlh} "center, middle" & {qoD} "inside, interior")


 
-- 
Voragh                          
Canon Master of the Klingons

Back to archive top level