[Tlhingan-hol] What does "qu-" mean at the start of a word?

[Christoph Pichlmann]

Sorry for the confusion, I should have marked the word, as Lieven said.

*quja'* is NOT a klingon word - it merely looks like one. It has no meaning, it was chosen mostly because the letters were arranged in a similar way and it was easy to pronounce.

It doesn't actually adhere to the klingon syntax, I think - the first syllable only has two letters but is no prefix.

Christoph

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> My Klingon to English parser which I am writing, sometimes refuses on words starting with "qu-" when translating text, e.g.:-
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> quja' may mean:-
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> # <qu> V:[tell|report]
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> Is this word {quja'} a mistype? Or is there a morpheme "qu" which I have omitted from my parser's dictionary, and what is its role in grammar?

 		 	   		  
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