[84086] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: qach (noun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jan 29 11:26:48 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:25:09 -0600
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, January 28, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: qach
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: building, structure
Used in canon:
meQtaHbogh qachDaq Suv qoH neH
Only a fool fights in a burning house. TKW
qachvetlh vIDab
I live in/at that building. (st.klingon 7/99)
Discussed by Okrand:
KGT 32: A minority of children pronounce /tlh/ as /ch/, particularly at
the end of syllables. For example, {qatlh} (why) is pronounced {qach}, and
{botlh} (middle) is {boch}. Though the resulting forms may be real, though
different, words ({qach}, for example, is "structure, building", and
{{boch} means "be shiny"), there is seldom any confusion because the
identically pronounced words are used in such different contexts.
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.
For structure in the metaphorical sense of an organized order, system, etc.
use {pat} "system" or {patlh} "rank, level, layer, standing": e.g.
{qutluch patlh} "kut'luch rank" ("This phrase means 'hierarchical
structure'." [KGT 110]). There's also some slang:
KGT 165: Note the slang phrases {tlham ghaj} "have gravity" ("have
structure, order")
Related nouns:
{juH} home, house; {vaS} hall
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
