[84471] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Klingon WOTD: SanID (number)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jonathan Webley)
Tue Apr 22 02:55:40 2008
From: "Jonathan Webley" <jonathan.webley@uwclub.net>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2008 07:44:21 +0100
In-Reply-To: <6.2.1.2.2.20080421090759.027a0040@imap.uchicago.edu>
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In TKD, {maH}, {vatlh}, {SaD} and {SanID} are described as "special
number-forming elements", that is suffixes. The implication is that they are
not words in their own right. For example "Ten" is translated as {wa'maH}
and not {maH}.
But then there seem to be a few examples where they appear as words...
Confused?
Do these words have plurals? How would we say "thousands of things"?
> -----Original Message-----
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> Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: SanID (number)
>
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> >This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, April 21, 2008.
> >
> >Klingon word: SanID
> >Part of Speech: number
> >Definition: thousand
>
> Used in canon:
>
> vagh SanID ben buDbe' wamwI'pu'.
> 5,000 years ago, hunters were not lazy. (st.klingon 11/99)
>
> TKD 53: Both {SaD} and {SanID} are equally correct for "thousand", and
> both are used with roughly equal frequency. It is not known why this
> number
> alone has two variants.
>
> Klingons may {SaD} and {SanID} with roughly equal frequency, but Okrand
> definitely prefers {SaD} in canon:
>
> qaStaHvIS wa' ram loS SaD Hugh SIjlaH qetbogh loD
> 4,000 throats may be cut in one night by a running man. TKD
>
> cha'SaD DeQ
> 2000 credits
>
> vaghSaD DeQ HInob
> Give me 5,000 credits! PK
>
> chorghSaD qelI'qam HIvchuq'e' vInoH
> Estimating attack range in 8,000 kellicams. ST5
>
> wa'SaD
> one thousand STC:KLS
>
> vaghSaD wejvatlh loSmaH Soch
> 5,347 STC:KLS
>
> wejvatlh SochmaH vagh SaD cheb'a'mey ngI' Duj
> Mass: 8.7 KT. KBoP
>
> SaD DIS poH
> millennium (HQ 8.3:3)
>
>
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
