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[Tlhingan-hol] nav qatwI' vs. nav vaH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lieven)
Thu Nov 5 14:03:58 2015
To: "tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org"
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From: Lieven <levinius@gmx.de>
Date: Thu, 5 Nov 2015 20:03:42 +0100
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Last week there arose some questions why there seem to be two
definitions for envelope:
{nav qatwI'} TalkNow
{nav vaH} qepHom 2015, p.18
I asked Okrand about this, and he first said "Why can't a thing have two
words?" He later went into detail, saying that a {vaH} can be used for
any kind of cover you use to put things in, for instance also a CD
sleeve. The vaH is usally a finished piece of material. The word
{qatwI'} is a more literal translation of the meaning "envelope".
Sometimes you can look at an envelope and see how it's made: it's a
piece of paper wrapping around something.
Next Okrand said that if there were a Klingon-Klingon dictionary, {nav
qatwI'} would be a good description for a {nav vaH}.
--
Lieven L. Litaer
aka Quvar valer 'utlh
Grammarian of the KLI
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