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

[Gaerfindel]

Martok makes reference a number of times to *cases* of bloodwine.  I 
presume this is a box-shaped container {ngaSwI'}, convenient for 
shipping, with a standard number of bloodwine bottles {'Iw HIq balmey} 
therein.  Also, judging by the on-screen props -- particularly on DS9 -- 
it seems bloodwine is bottled, sold, and consumed by the {tlho'ren}.

~quljIb

On 12/6/2012 2:34 PM, Steven Boozer wrote:
> 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