[87668] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: Hypothetical (reconstructed) vocabulary?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jan 19 09:59:25 2010
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "'tlhingan-hol@kli.org'" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:56:14 -0600
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Chris:
>Way behind the curve here, apparently (damn school....). A couple of
>additions to the list, mentioned in TKD:
And here are five more to add to the list:
*{ba'} "official?; ritual/ceremonial?" < {Heghba'} Ritual Suicide,
{meqba'} Mek'ba (type of legal proceeding)
[cf. {tay} "ceremony, rite, ritual"]
*{bo'} "civil, civilian, non-military?" < {bo'DIj} court (n.)
[cf. {ghIpDIj} court-martial (v.)]
*{DIj} "trial, ordeal?" < {bo'DIj} court (n.), {ghIpDIj} court-
martial (v.)
*{ghep} "age/significant time in life (of person)?" < {nenghep} Age
of Ascension, {peHghep} Age of Inclusion
*{peH} "inclusion?" < {peHghep} Age of Inclusion
>'ejDo' for starship
>'ejyo' for Starfleet
Thanks. I should have remembered these.
>Interestingly, we also have some hints of sound change or another
>compound here, as Okrand reckons that <Do'> is probably an old word
>for "space vessel" while the modern word is <Duj>. It thus seems like
>there is either an old for fixed in <Do'>, or that, at some point, the
>compound <'ejDo'> got flipped around to <Do''ej>, and then reduced to
><Duj>...
Okrand comments:
TKD 20: For example, {'ejDo'} means "starship". The syllable {'ej} also occurs in {'ejyo'} "Starfleet". There are, however, no known Klingon words {'ej}, {Do'}, or {yo'} that have anything to do with Starfleet, starships, the Federation, or space vehicles of any kind. It is quite likely that {Do'} is an Old Klingon word for "space vessel" (the modern Klingon word is {Duj}) that is used nowhere except in the noun {'ejDo'}. Of course, without further study, that remains pure conjecture."
--
Voragh
Canon Master of the Klingons
