[96918] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Sunlight and Starlight
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Trimboli)
Sun Aug 18 11:50:59 2013
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2013 11:50:21 -0400
From: David Trimboli <david@trimboli.name>
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
In-Reply-To: <CABSTb1dARJOzH1ZBu-tv8jpPevietQZNrp3X=wuE4iV1jX7N0Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On 8/18/2013 10:49 AM, Bellerophon, modeler wrote:
> I'm no canon authority, but I've noticed other compound words that
> strongly imply additional vocabulary.
>
> Klingons may not make a fetish of logic, but they don't abandon
> it completely like humans.
Languages are usually logical, but often the logic of language is not
obvious. The details are usually buried in history.
Perhaps there once was a noun *{wov} that meant "light," and that noun
formed genitive constructions like *{maS wov}, *{jul wov}, and *{Hov
wov}. For some reason, however, the noun *{wov} disappeared from the
language, or became technical jargon. The construct *{maS wov}, however,
stuck around, perhaps as part of a saying or a famous line of
literature, but since it no longer made sense as a genitive construct,
it began to be interpreted as a single word: {maSwov}. If all this were
true, it would mean that *{julwov} and *{Hovwov} are NOT words as yet
undiscovered by Federation linguists, and it would be wrong to assume
their existence.
Etymology!
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