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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: bal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gaerfindel)
Thu Dec 6 15:23:55 2012
Date: Thu, 6 Dec 2012 15:23:09 -0500
From: Gaerfindel <gaerfindel@hotmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <ACF6622D959A8842A81E4471BA56A7E001F0CEBC@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu>
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Martok makes reference a number of times to *cases* of bloodwine. I
presume this is a box-shaped container {ngaSwI'}, convenient for
shipping, with a standard number of bloodwine bottles {'Iw HIq balmey}
therein. Also, judging by the on-screen props -- particularly on DS9 --
it seems bloodwine is bottled, sold, and consumed by the {tlho'ren}.
~quljIb
On 12/6/2012 2:34 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> A useful verb is {muq} "have a volume of". So if a bloodwine bottle is a standard size:
>
> vaghmaH 'Iw HIq bal muq qeghvam
> This barrel has a volume of 50 bloodwine bottles.
>
> To refer to the number of actual bottles in the barrel:
>
> vaghmaH 'Iw HIq bal ngaS qeghvam
> This barrel contains 50 bottles of bloodwine.
>
> FYI see {tlho'ren}:
>
> The only unit of volume I'm aware of is {tlho'ren}. I'm
> not exactly sure how much one {tlho'ren} is, but it seems
> to be in the quart/liter range." [Okrand, st.k 10/22/1997]
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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