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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: qach
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Mar 24 12:46:18 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 16:46:09 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, March 23, 2014
>
> Klingon word: qach
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: building, structure
meQtaHbogh qachDaq Suv qoH neH
Only a fool fights in a burning house. TKW
qachvetlh vIDab
I live in/at that building. (st.k 7/99)
SaqSub qach tIQ beb bIngDaq pay' qul'a' tu'lu'
Then fires burst under the roofs of the Saq'sub's ancient houses PB
Quj wa'DIch juH qachmey mebpa'mey je qa' raQmey chu' monmey chu' je
Custom OUTPOSTS and CAPITALS replace original Houses and Hotels. MKE
qeylIS Qaw' 'e' nIDmeH yerDaj weH molor 'ej juH qachDaj meQmoH
[In order to destroy Kahless, Molor raided his lands and burnt his
home.] PB (need official translation)
HQ 8.3: {rav'eq} refers to the ceiling of any room (though, more narrowly, it refers to the ceiling of a room that has a room above it, as in a multistory structure); {pa' beb} refers specifically to the ceiling of a room which is on the top (or only) story of a structure.
Okand's bessage to Lieven Litaer (10/24/2011):
... [Maltz] said he did know a word {Qur} that might be related,
though it was difficult to translate. The best he could come up
with was "structure" or "organization". He was quick to point out
that this did not mean structure like a building is a structure,
nor did it mean organization like an organization of people or
even an organization of states. It means the way things fit
together or the arrangement of the parts of something bigger.
Okrand's email to Lieven L. Litaer (1/07/2011):
What [Maltz] meant was that while a {ghIn} could be a single
building if that's all the monastery was, it could also refer
to a group of buildings and accompanying grounds (gardens or
whatever)--the whole defined area where the members of the
religious community live or work or do whatever they do there.
Related words:
chalqach tower (n)
juH qach house (TNK)
ropyaH qach hospital (TNK)
vaS hall (n)
renwI' designer, architect (n)
qurbuSwI' architect [Morskan dialect] (n)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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