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

[André Müller]

You know, that's weird! I've always perceived {bIQtIq} as the 'water
heart', as rivers somehow pump the water through the countries or something
like that. I always thought, how poetic! I never realized it could've been
simply 'long water' (how profane!).

2015-04-14 16:55 GMT+02:00 De'vID <de.vid.jonpin at gmail.com>:

> On 14 April 2015 at 16:20, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:
> >> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 14, 2015
> >>
> >> Klingon word: tIq
> >> Part of speech: verb
> >> Definition: be long, be lengthy (of an object)
> > N.B. Don't confuse with the noun {tIq} "heart".  For time use {nI'} "be
> long, be lengthy (duration)".
> >
> > SEE ALSO:
> > bIQtIq                  river
>
> I wonder if this might be a sign into how Marc Okrand viewed the
> construction of words from more basic parts early on in the language's
> development (or, if you like, how early Klingons constructed words).
> {bIQtIq} *seems* to be the construction "long water", and {bIQ'a'}
> *seems* to be "big/grand/important water". Of course, {bIQtIq} might
> also have been "water's heart", or perhaps the last part's just a
> coincidental homophone with no relation to any word {tIq}.
>
> Some related words for {tIq} are {woch}, {'ab}, and {'aD}.
>
> --
> De'vID
>
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