[89516] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: chIjwI' tIQ bom: 'ay' wej
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Felix Malmenbeck)
Thu Sep 8 17:03:00 2011
From: Felix Malmenbeck <felixm@kth.se>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Sep 2011 20:54:00 +0000
In-Reply-To: <C305E6BD33E2654DAE1F8F403247B6A602D46C604AAB@EVS02.ad.uchicago.edu>
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ghItlhta' Voragh:
>I've always thought of *{joqwI''a'} as a sail. We know that {joqwI'} is a flag, and Okrand commented in HQ 10.4:
> ... when a banner or sail flaps, the correct word to use is
> {joq} "flap, flutter, wave".
>
> I suppose {joqwI'} could also mean a sail. The augmentative doesn't really matter as the first part of a ship you'd
> see coming over the horizon would be its flags, pennants or sails before the ship proper.
I suppose a sail could be called a vo'meH joqwI' (flapper for propelling), although if my sailing knowledge is worth wa' vatlhvI' DarSeq, the fluttering/waving/flapping function of a sail doesn't really help much with propulsion.
Water-related terms and textile-related ones... ...high on my list of desired new canon!
