[87649] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Hypothetical (reconstructed) vocabulary?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Greene)
Mon Jan 11 11:41:01 2010
Date: Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:39:14 +0000 (GMT)
From: Alex Greene <fiat_knox@yahoo.co.uk>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A60113A1A56602@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
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> Note BTW the existence of another word for spike,
> {DuQwI'}:
> KGT 58: A warrior's glove ... had ... sharp
> protrusions at the knuckles. If there was a special name for
> these protrusions, it is lost; they are now called simply
> {DuQwI'mey} (spikes).
> KGT 61: A spike is a {DuQwI'} and the small spikes on
> the d'k tahg [pommel] are usually called {DuQwI'Hommey}
> (little spikes).
Not to mention lIghon DuQwI' pogh (Ligonian spike glove) [from the dictionary portion of KGT].
