[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: lupwI'

[Noah Bogart]

*Qum, not Qom.

On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 8:48 AM, Noah Bogart <nbtheduke at gmail.com> wrote:

> Well, page 159 of KGT talks about Qom (communicate) and how in the past
> there might have been a noun form (communication), so the idea that a
> meaning has fallen so out of usage as to be nearly forgotten isn't
> completely irrelevant. I think it's more that we just don't have enough
> canon literature to compare/look to.
>
> Noah
>
>
> On Fri, Oct 28, 2011 at 5:12 AM, Lieven Litaer <lieven.litaer at web.de>wrote:
>
>> Am 28.10.2011 10:16, schrieb André Müller:
>>
>>  In fact we do know a nice counter example: The German word "Mädchen"
>>> (girl, be'Hom) does contain a diminutive suffix but the base word Maid
>>> or Magd is virtually non-existing nowadays and the etymology isn't
>>> immediately transparent to most users.
>>>
>>
>> Okay, thanks for this, BUT:
>>
>> a) I was talking about Klingon,
>> b) even though most people might not know where "Mädchen" comes from, the
>> word "Magd" still does exist (although seldomly used.)
>>
>> Im am sure we will find hundereds of examples like this in english or
>> german. Kanin-chen, Eichhörn-chen, Ku-chen...
>>
>> ;-)
>>
>>
>> Lieven.
>>
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