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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chevwI' tlhoy'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (De'vID)
Thu Feb 14 16:25:02 2013
In-Reply-To: <ACF6622D959A8842A81E4471BA56A7E001F2BA31@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu>
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 22:24:38 +0100
From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>,
Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
Errors-To: tlhingan-hol-bounces@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
On Thu, Feb 14, 2013 at 4:26 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, February 14, 2013
>>
>> Klingon word: chevwI' tlhoy'
>> Part of speech: noun
>> Definition: territorial wall (e.g. Berlin Wall)
>
> Source: startrek.klingon (12/7/1998):
>
> The wall around a city is a {yergho}, which is apparently derived from {yer} "domain, holdings, territory" plus {gho} "circle."
This is an allusion to a Biblical story.
> A wall which divides a territory into parts (such as the Berlin Wall) is also called a {tlhoy'}, even though neither side of it is the interior of a structure. On occasion, for clarity, such a wall is termed a {chevwI' tlhoy'} "separator wall") or a {pIn tlhoy'}, literally "boss wall," presumably dating back to a time when each subterritory had a specific person in charge."
I just now got the joke behind this.
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De'vID
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