[Tlhingan-hol] village dweller

[Steven Boozer]

Well, *{venganpu’} (< *vengnganpu’} would be urbanites, CITY dwellers.  *{vengHomnganpu’} would be villagers.  But there’s no reason you can’t write this as two words {vengHom nganpu’}.  We tend to forget that {ngan} “inhabitant” is a perfectly good noun all on its own.  Also, IIRC all the gentilics we’ve seen with the “suffix” form {-ngan} have been with proper names – e.g. {nuralngan} Neuralese – not simple nouns like {veng}, {vengHom}, {yuQ}, {Duj}, etc.

OTOH {vengHom DabwI’pu’} works just as it is.  I would understand that straight away.

--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

From: André Müller [mailto:esperantist at gmail.com]
Sent: Monday, September 26, 2011 4:13 PM
To: Josh Badgley
Cc: KLI
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] village dweller

Two suggestions:
For the "villagers", what do you think about venganpu'? That'd work in the same way as tlhInganpu' is derived from tlhIng yoS, the Kling District.


2011/9/26 Josh Badgley <joshbadgley at hotmail.com<mailto:joshbadgley at hotmail.com>>
lutHom vIqontaH.  But it seems I have hit a snag.  My story takes place on nural (Neural, from "A Private Little War"), and in the episode there are several different tribes of nuralnganpu', including the "Hill People" and the village dwellers.

So in my story, I have named the village dwellers vengHom DabwI'pu' and I am almost certain that I have violated a rule or something...I don't know which rule, but needless to say, I trust my instincts when they tell me my grammar sucks.

What would be a good tlhIngan Hol term for "village dwellers" ? And  please, not  anything that translates to "village people", I already thought of that...:)


-- jhb

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