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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chuy

Rohan Fenwick ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>ghItlhpu' qurgh, jatlh:<br>&gt; Klingon word: chuy<br><div>&gt; Part of speech: verb<br>&gt; Definition: sneeze<br>&gt; Source: HQ:v12n4p8<br><br>jang Voragh, jatlh:<br>&gt; PUN: achoo!<br><br>I don't know it's really a pun as much as just sound-symbolism or onomatopoeia. We don't have much of that in Klingon - though note {vIng} "whine", {Qom} "experience an earthquake", {tlhup} "whisper" - but compare Russian /chikhat'/, Albanian /teshtij/, Arabic /`aTasa/, all "to sneeze". (Tangentially, I also notice that some bright spark has posted to Wiktionary a number of the verbs from Anthony Traill's dictionary of !Xóõ, among which is this extraordinary piece of sound-symbolism: /gǂˣáˀã/ "to sneeze, to snort".)<br><br>taH:<br>&gt; Is {chuyDaH} "thrusters" - {chuy} + {DaH} "bank, array" - related?<br>&gt; (They do eject exhaust gases with some force that propel the vehicle.)<br><br>A very great likelihood, I should think. Perhaps a shortening of *{chuymeH DaH} - maybe engineers' slang? :)<br><br>QeS<br></div> 		 	   		  </div></body>
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