[89036] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: mu'mey chu': jul
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Josh Badgley)
Thu Aug 18 11:20:57 2011
From: "Josh Badgley " <joshbadgley@hotmail.com>
To: "sboozer@uchicago.edu " <sboozer@uchicago.edu>, " tlhingan-hol@kli.org "
< tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:15:12 +0000
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I liked Hov'a' from ghIlghameS but I guess it's a little imprecise...
vIghro' namwech
-----Original Message-----
Date: Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:06:59 am
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
Subject: RE: mu'mey chu': jul
Well that's certainly true. I suspect the real reason was that *{Sol} would have been far too obvious.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Philip Newton
>
> On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 22:01, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >> chaq lugh Felix. Though the etymology of *yule* is uncertain [...] it is
> >> celebrated during the winter SOLstice.
> >
> > Also, the obvious pun {Sol} wasn't available as Okrand had already used it for
> the verb "quarrel".
>
> There are lots of words which have completely different meanings as
> nouns and as verbs (e.g. bor, choS, DIS, Doch, Dub, ghor, ...); I
> don't think a verb "quarrel" would block a noun "sun".
>
> Philip Newton <philip.newton@gmail.com>
>
>
