[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: bal

[Steven Boozer]

A useful verb is {muq} "have a volume of".  So if a bloodwine bottle is a standard size:

  vaghmaH 'Iw HIq bal muq qeghvam
  This barrel has a volume of 50 bloodwine bottles.

To refer to the number of actual bottles in the barrel:

  vaghmaH 'Iw HIq bal ngaS qeghvam
  This barrel contains 50 bottles of bloodwine.  

FYI see {tlho'ren}:

  The only unit of volume I'm aware of is {tlho'ren}. I'm
  not exactly sure how much one {tlho'ren} is, but it seems
  to be in the quart/liter range."  [Okrand, st.k 10/22/1997]

--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Felix Malmenbeck [mailto:felixm at kth.se]
> 
> > {'Iw HIq bal} -- bloodwine bottle, IOW the type of bottle used for
> > storing bloodwine
> > {bal 'Iw HIq} -- bottle of bloodwine(?)
> 
> With noun-noun constructs, the formula always seems to be "A B" = "B
> pertaining to A".
> So, a bottle of bloodwine would still be 'Iw HIq bal; otherwise, it'd
> be something like "bottled bloodwine" or "bloodwine for bottles".
> 
> If you want to specify that it's a bottle which simply happens to
> contain bloodwine, I suppose you could call it {'Iw HIq ngaStaHbogh
> bal'e'}.
> 
> ________________________________________
> From: Gaerfindel [gaerfindel at hotmail.com]
> 
> Once again, the beginner goes out on a limb...
> 
> {'Iw HIq bal} -- bloodwine bottle, IOW the type of bottle used for
> storing bloodwine
> {bal 'Iw HIq} -- bottle of bloodwine(?)
> 
> {vaghmaH balmey 'Iw HIq ngaS qeghvam.} -- This keg/barrel contains 50
> bottles (worth) of bloodwine.
> 
> Or should that be written {vaghmaH bal 'Iw HIqmey 'Iw HIq ngaS
> qeghvam}, treating {bal 'Iw HIq} as a single unit (of measure)?
> 
> ~quljIb
>