[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: SuwomIy

[Felix Malmenbeck]

I suspect quljIb may be thinking of the Sami, who are considered indigenous to northern Scandinavia and Finland.

"Sami" and "Suomi" may or may not be cognates. However, Wikipedia would suggest linguists tend to lean toward "may not".
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finland#Etymology

We used to get quite a lot of Finnish TV when I was a lod, and it was always labeled "suomi". I remember I used to think that this was Sami TV, since they sounded similar.

A {SuwomIyngan be'} plays Kahless in the Klingon battle opera 'u':
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SYlu2DJvPM4
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From: SuStel [sustel at trimboli.name]
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Not a play; all of the country names except the ones that are phrases are transcriptions of the way the natives say them. Finns call Finland "Suomi." A Finn is a SuwomIyngan.
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Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: SuwomIy

On 6/8/2014 10:01 AM, qurgh lungqIj wrote:
> Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, June 08, 2014
>
> Klingon word: SuwomIy
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: Finland
> Source: TalkNow - Learn Klingon!, revealed 30 September 2011
>
No doubt a play on the native Swami people.  And I'm guessing said
natives would be {SuwomIynganpu'}?

~quljIb

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