[Tlhingan-hol] Objects with -moH

Steven Boozer sboozer at uchicago.edu
Tue Jun 3 07:56:41 PDT 2014


Felix:
>> paq'yav, Canto 12, Stanzas 2 & 4:
>>
>>  jIbDaj lumeQmoH
>>  jIbDaj lumeQmoH
>>  qul bIQtIq qulHommey
>>    [...]
>>  jIbDaj lumeQmoH
>>  'ej bejtaHvIS
>>  baS moj jIb
> 
> Sparks from the fire river
> Caught his hair,
> Caught his hair.
>   [...]
> Caught his hair
> And turned to steel
> Before his eyes.

Two comments:

{qulHom}  spark (n) (now it's official!)

Steel is simply rendered by {baS} "metal" - no attempt at specifying a particular kind as it's unnecessary here.  Translators please note.

Thanks again, Felix.

--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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