[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: mI' nagh
De'vID jonpIn
de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com
Thu Mar 22 12:13:52 PDT 2012
Philip Newton:
> Someone (De'vID jonpIn?) asked Marc Okrand about {DIng} at the qepHom
> wa'maHDIch (2011) in Saarbrücken.
vIghel 'e' vIqawbe' 'ach pa' jISaHtaHvIS ghellu'. SaHlaw' je loghaD.
Philip Newton:
> I seem to recall that he agreed that it was intransitive (the spinning
> thing {DIng}s, and the one who spins it {DIngmoH}s it), but am not
> sure whether the answer might not have been the characteristical
> noncommittal instead.
lugh {ghur vay'}, {vay' ghurmoHlu'}, {nup vay'}, {vay' nupmoHlu'} je 'e'
maqbej MO. {jIr} rur {DIng} maq je 'ach rurchu' 'e' maqchu'be'.
Sovchu'meH matlh'e' tlhobnISlaw'.
({matlh'e' tlhobnIS} is apparently an idiom meaning "to be
characteristically noncommittal". {{:-) )
--
De'vID
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://stodi.digitalkingdom.org/pipermail/tlhingan-hol/attachments/20120322/dde15f7a/attachment.html>
More information about the Tlhingan-hol
mailing list