[Tlhingan-hol] Propellers and rotors

[Anthony Appleyard]

It should be remembered that the canon Klingon vocabulary that we have is much oriented towards space travel with Star Trek technology, because it is needed where there is speech in Klingon in Star Trek movies and episodes. For the technology pf craft that need propellers and rotors and rudders etc, likely the recourse would have to be "ask Okrand". Likely if one of us could somehow jump into the Star Trek fictional word, to somewhere on Qo'noS by a sea or a big lake where boats are used, he would find screw propellers and/or hydrojets, and rudders and moorings etc, and Klingon words for them; and a word for a strongly-propelled jet of liquid or (hot) gas, whether or not used for propulsion. Simlarly on Qo'noS where propeller or jet aircraft are used, or were been used in the past. Compare the lack of ground transport vocabulary compelling much use on this group of {Duj} to mean "car" when writing about real-world matters; I once found {Duj tlha'wI'} for "trailer towed by car".

-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Boozer 
Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 2015 12:52 PM
To: 'Alan Anderson' <qunchuy at alcaco.net>
Subject: RE: [Tlhingan-hol] Propellers and rotors

> > Is a specific word possible for a screw-type propeller (sea-ship or 
> > airplane) or helicopter rotor?

Wouldn't *{vo'wI'} "propeller" do or isn't it specific enough technically?  Over the years people have used it for oar, jet (engine) (Qov), propulsion unit, and sail (QeS).

AFAIK Okrand has used {vo'} "propel" once:

  QIStaq qul bIQtIqHomDaq 'etlhDaj vo' nuch
  the coward threw his sword into the fire streams of Kri'stak (PB)