[Tlhingan-hol] Sunlight and Starlight

[David Trimboli]

On 8/18/2013 10:49 AM, Bellerophon, modeler wrote:
> I'm no canon authority, but I've noticed other compound words that
> strongly imply additional vocabulary.
>
> Klingons may not make a fetish of logic, but they don't abandon
> it completely like humans.

Languages are usually logical, but often the logic of language is not 
obvious. The details are usually buried in history.

Perhaps there once was a noun *{wov} that meant "light," and that noun 
formed genitive constructions like *{maS wov}, *{jul wov}, and *{Hov 
wov}. For some reason, however, the noun *{wov} disappeared from the 
language, or became technical jargon. The construct *{maS wov}, however, 
stuck around, perhaps as part of a saying or a famous line of 
literature, but since it no longer made sense as a genitive construct, 
it began to be interpreted as a single word: {maSwov}. If all this were 
true, it would mean that *{julwov} and *{Hovwov} are NOT words as yet 
undiscovered by Federation linguists, and it would be wrong to assume 
their existence.

Etymology!

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