[88389] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: latlh mu' chu'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (R Fenwick)
Tue Dec 7 01:17:14 2010
From: R Fenwick <qeslagh@hotmail.com>
To: <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2010 16:10:41 +1000
Errors-to: tlhingan-hol-bounce@kli.org
Reply-to: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
ghItlhpu' Voragh, jatlh:
>If we're looking for a Klingon term, "retronyms" could be considered
>a form of {no' Hol}, maybe even {mu'mey Doy'}. Can anyone think of
>other Klingon retronyms other than {nagh beQ}?
The one that springs immediately to mind, though it's not quite the
same thing, is {DaSpu'} "boot spike"; IIRC, Okrand says in KGT that
it likely arose after the older word *{pu'} "spike" was appropriated
as the usual term for "phaser".
QeS 'utlh
