tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 14 08:09:41 2015
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tIq
<div dir="ltr"><div>You know, that's weird! I've always perceived {bIQtIq} as the 'water heart', as rivers somehow pump the water through the countries or something like that. I always thought, how poetic! I never realized it could've been simply 'long water' (how profane!).<br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">2015-04-14 16:55 GMT+02:00 De'vID <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:[email protected]" target="_blank">[email protected]</a>></span>:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 14 April 2015 at 16:20, Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>> wrote:<br>
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 14, 2015<br>
>><br>
>> Klingon word: tIq<br>
>> Part of speech: verb<br>
>> Definition: be long, be lengthy (of an object)<br>
> N.B. Don't confuse with the noun {tIq} "heart". For time use {nI'} "be long, be lengthy (duration)".<br>
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> SEE ALSO:<br>
> bIQtIq river<br>
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I wonder if this might be a sign into how Marc Okrand viewed the<br>
construction of words from more basic parts early on in the language's<br>
development (or, if you like, how early Klingons constructed words).<br>
{bIQtIq} *seems* to be the construction "long water", and {bIQ'a'}<br>
*seems* to be "big/grand/important water". Of course, {bIQtIq} might<br>
also have been "water's heart", or perhaps the last part's just a<br>
coincidental homophone with no relation to any word {tIq}.<br>
<br>
Some related words for {tIq} are {woch}, {'ab}, and {'aD}.<br>
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De'vID<br>
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