[Tlhingan-hol] New words: screw and nail

[Felix Malmenbeck]

lI'bej mu'meyvam chu'! latlhmey Da'aghruptaHmo' jISeytaH! :)

> I'm guessing that a {wIl} is a large, heavy spike - which makes sense if Qov
> is right about it being a "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" reference.  Presumably
> all three new words are construction terms, used in building starships,
> buildings, etc.

The Buffy pun makes sense even if it's not something you might use as a stake, but it'd be a nice double pun if it were.
It does make sense that all three would be construction terms, considering the context. ...and depending on how deep Marc's Buffy knowledge goes, we might expect the set of all wIlmey to include those used in the construction of lupwI' mIr wIlmey.

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From: Steven Boozer [sboozer at uchicago.edu]
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2012 15:46
To: tlhingan-hol at kli.org
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] New words: screw and nail

Marc Okrand wrote to Qov:
>> The word for "screw" is <Hut'In vIl>, which is, of course,
>> a ridgy <Hut'In>. Turns out <Hut'In> is the word for "nail."

{Hut'Inmey} are used with a {mupwI'} "hammer" no doubt, which may mean that {mup} "impact, strike" is the operative verb.  We also have {qIp} "hit (with hand, fist, implement)" and {moq} "beat (something with an implement)" available.  {moq} is used WRT percussion instruments:

KGT 74-75:  "Other members of this group of instruments are hit with a stick of some kind. The stick often resembles a small hammer; when it does, it is termed {mupwI'Hom} (literally, "small striker"). A plain stick is a {naQHom} (literally, "small cane" or "small staff"). To strike the instrument with a stick is to {moq} ("beat") the instrument."

Qov:
>> Maltz also volunteered that the word for "spike" is <wIl>.
>
> And it turns out wIl is extremely useful for my story, too.

As it happens, we have two other words for "spike", {DuQwI'} and {pu'}:

KGT 61:  A spike is a {DuQwI'} and the small spikes on the *d'k tahg* are usually called {DuQwI'Hommey} (little spikes).

KGT 58:  A warrior's glove ({pogh}), also made of skin, had wide band around the wrist and sharp protrusions at the knuckles. If there was a special name for these protrusions, it is lost; they are now called simply {DuQwI'mey} (spikes).

KGT 67:  Included in this category is the {ghanjaq}, often translated as "mace", a club with a metal head, sometimes sporting spikes ({DuQwI'mey}).

KGT 58:  On the toe of each high boot ({DaS}) ... was a clawlike spike called a {pu'}. ... In contemporary Klingon, the spike on the toe of a boot is always called a {DaSpu'} ("boot spike"), never {pu'} alone.

I'm guessing that a {wIl} is a large, heavy spike - which makes sense if Qov is right about it being a "Buffy, the Vampire Slayer" reference.  Presumably all three new words are construction terms, used in building starships, buildings, etc.


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons


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