[84192] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Klingon WOTD: Qong (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Feb 28 15:57:56 2008
Date: Thu, 28 Feb 2008 14:55:27 -0600
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
In-Reply-To: <E1JUpQP-00036f-8G@chain.digitalkingdom.org>
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
At 02:30 PM Thursday 2/28/2008, you wrote:
>Here are a few more mentions in TKD:
>
> jIQong
> (I sleep. - TKD 33,67)
>
> bIQong
> (You sleep. - TKD 33)
>
> maQong
> (We sleep. - TKD 33)
>
> SuQong
> (You (plural) sleep. - TKD 33)
>
> yIQong
> (sleep! - TKD 34)
>
> peQong
> (You (plural) sleep! - TKD 34)
No surprises in this conjugated series, but canon is canon! Those would be
the examples for Okrand's comment infra:
> > Discussed by Okrand:
> >
> > TKD 33: In the case of {Qong} "he/she/it sleeps, they sleep", the exact
> > subject would be indicated elsewhere in the sentence or by context. This
> > set of prefixes is also used "when an object is possible, but unknown or
> > vague."
Thanks.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
