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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Hu'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Oct 29 11:04:52 2012
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2012 15:04:38 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, October 27, 2012
>
> Klingon word: Hu'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: days ago
So far, only seen in compound nouns, e.g.
wa'Hu' yesterday (one day ago)
cha'Hu' day before yesterday (two days ago)
wa'Hu' jIghung
Yesterday I was hungry. CK
{Hu'} is the counterpart of {leS} "days from now" (n.) - e.g. {wa'leS} tomorrow, {cha'leS} day after tomorrow, {'opleS} one day (indef.). This last example would imply *{'opHu'} "some days ago, a few days ago". We have one example of ['opleS}:
qeylIS loDnI' 'opleS chovan
One day, brother Kahless, You will bow before me. PB
Language notes:
HQ 8.3 p.3: The words {ret} [period of time ago] and {pIq} [period of time from now] could also be used with days, months, and years (e.g., {wej jaj ret} "three days ago", rather than {wejHu'}, but utterances of these are not particularly common, sound a bit archaic, and are usually restricted to rather formal settings.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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