tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Aug 18 07:05:17 2011
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RE: mu'mey chu': jul
Well that's certainly true. I suspect the real reason was that *{Sol} would have been far too obvious.
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Newton
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 22:01, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> >> chaq lugh Felix. Though the etymology of *yule* is uncertain [...] it is
> >> celebrated during the winter SOLstice.
> >
> > Also, the obvious pun {Sol} wasn't available as Okrand had already used it for
> the verb "quarrel".
>
> There are lots of words which have completely different meanings as
> nouns and as verbs (e.g. bor, choS, DIS, Doch, Dub, ghor, ...); I
> don't think a verb "quarrel" would block a noun "sun".
>
> Philip Newton <[email protected]>
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