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Re: mu' chu'

qurgh zantai-lungqIj ([email protected]) 

When I was talking to Eric about the new words, he also mentioned
ghIv - limb (of a person)

Was that not on the list?

qurgh

-- Palm PrewIjvaD QInvam vIngeHOn Jul 26, 2010 12:48 PM, ghunchu'wI' 'utlh <[email protected]> wrote: 

ja' Voragh:

> Time for the ritual post-qep'a' question:  Any new words from Okrand this year?



A cadre of grammarians had the opportunity to preview a section of a

Klingon opera. In it we noted a smattering of tlhIngan Hol spellings

for names of various places, people, and plants. Someone wrote them

down, but I did not think them important enough at the time to record

them myself. I do recall that {Suto'vo'qor} was confirmed as correct.



There were three nouns we had not seen before:



  maQ "omen, sign"

  ruS "bond", as between blood brothers

  chalqach "tower"



The first two give standalone meanings to already-existing morphemes

(see {maQmIgh} and {ruStay} in TKD). A running joke has been going for

many years about wanting a word for "deluxe apartment in the sky"; we

now know to say {chalqach pa''a'}. :)



We also saw an apparently adverbial {wa'DIch}, confirming that the

{wa'DIch jagh'e' wIHeghmoHmo'} line in {taHjaj wo'} is appropriate

usage.



-- ghunchu'wI'

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