[Tlhingan-hol] geometry terminology in Klingon

Felix Malmenbeck felixm at kth.se
Tue Jan 28 09:11:40 PST 2014


Voragh:
> The real question is:  How to say "hollow"?  We do have {chIm} "be empty" which, if appropriate WRT geometrical figures, implies {buy'} "be full, be filled up" for solid objects.

One [admittedly rather cumbersome] possibility is to distinguish between, for example, {qoD ghajbogh 'Impey'e'} ("pyramid with an interior") and {qoD Hutlhbogh 'Impey'e'} ("pyramid lacking an interior").

You could perhaps get away with referring to a "solid X" simply as an "X qoD", since its boundary (its veH? its reDmey?) is infinitely thin, anyway.
Perhaps.


More information about the Tlhingan-hol mailing list