[89672] in tlhIngan-Hol
RE: 'oghwI' lut
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Sep 13 17:00:10 2011
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 13 Sep 2011 15:54:28 -0500
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André Müller:
> >> But would it be qorDu'wI' or qorDu'wIj, I wonder...
ghunchu'wI':
>> I stand firmly in the {-wIj} camp. Though its members speak, the
>> family itself does not.
Voragh:
> Again, like {tuq} -- {tuqlIj} not *{tuqlI'}:
> pInaDqu' tuqlIj wInaDqu' je. KGT
OTOH compare the collective plural {no'lI'} "your ancestors" (pl.):
targhlIj yab tIn law' no'lI' Hoch yabDu' tIn puS
Your targ has a bigger brain than all your ancestors put together! PK
One's ancestors seem to be viewed like the {qa'pu'} "spirits":
jIjegh ghe'torvo' narghDI' qa'pu'
I will surrender when spirits escape from Gre'thor. KGT
KGT 117: Note that the word for spirit, {qa'}, takes the plural suffix {-pu'}, which is used for beings capable of using language. Spirits do speak.
... but apparently families and houses don't, at least not in Klingon.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
