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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: yuQjIjQa'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Dec 30 10:17:54 2013
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 15:17:40 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, December 30, 2013
>
> Klingon word: yuQjIjQa'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: United Federation of Planets
> Source: TKD (115 KE)
AFAIK never used in canonical sentences, where the shorter {DIvI'} "Federation" invariably appears.
{yuQjIjQa'} and its synonym {yuQjIjDIvI'} are apparently the more formal form. The difference between the two is unclear, but *{Qa'} seems to be a bound morpheme meaning something like "(political) union" that also shows up in {qarDaSQa'} Cardassian Union (MKE), {'amerI'qa' SepjIjQa'} United States of America (TNK) and {tuqjIjQa'} United Kingdom (TNK).
On the latter, Okrand wrote to qurgh:
Finally, for UK--You're right. I had forgotten about {wo' tay'}.
I think, though, for the CD, we should stick with {tuqjIjQa'}.
If someone should ask why there are two names for the same
country, I'd say that (1) it's not impossible for one country
to be referred to (especially in a language/culture not of that
country) by more than one name (Holland/Netherlands, for example),
and (2) wo' tay' is an older name -- perhaps the Klingons who
gave it that name were thinking of the British Empire.
Related words:
DIvI' federation, organization, association, league (n)
boq alliance, block, coalition [temporary?] (n)
jIj be cooperative, cooperate (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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