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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon word:   renwI'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     architect

Never used in a sentence AFAIK.
 
Okrand to architect Lieven Litaer (10/24/2011):

  [Maltz] did say, though, that there is a verb {ren} that means
  "design" or "map out" or "plan".  He said that {renwI'} (which I
  guess in its most general sense means designer) is a perfectly
  good term for architect, but it can also be used for someone who
  designs a vehicle, say. That is, it's not restricted to buildings.
  He said it would not be used for architect in the sense of someone
  being the architect of a plan to do something; it has to be used
  of a person who designs a physical object of some sort. {ren} is
  not the same as {'ogh} "invent", which implies creating something
  that hasn't been created before.  And it's not the same as {nab}
  "plan" which is used for planning an event (or a battle strategy
  or whatever), just as the noun {nab} "plan" cannot be used to
  refer to blueprints.

For comparison:

  lu'oghta' nIylo roDIS bIl jo'rIj je 
  Designed by: Nilo Rodis & Bill George. (KBOP)

Lieven added (11/15/11):

  By the way, the word for "blueprint" mentioned below is {pu'jIn},
  a word we learned some years ago.


PUN: 
"Christopher Wren built St. Pauls' Cathedral in London. Next, one branch of the Smithsonian Institute (where Marc Okrand used to teach, or still does) in Washington D.C. is called the "Renwick Gallery", design by the architect James Renwick. Marc Okrand said to me at qepHom X: 'These are even two reasons for the word to be {renwI'}'." (Lieven, 1/26/2012)



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons