[Tlhingan-hol] News from Maltz: Chemistry

[nIqolay Q]

{yugh} looks it'll be a very useful word -- is its use limited to
chemistry, or could it apply in cases like {nagh yugh Hew} "The statue
is made of stone" or even {tlhInganpu' neH yugh tIjwI'ghom} "The
boarding party is made up of only Klingons"?

Another pun: {Sorpuq} backwards and transliterated is "kupros". From
Wiktionary, on the etymology of "copper": From Middle English coper,
from Old English coper, copor ‎(“copper”), from Late Latin cuprum
‎(“copper”), contraction of Latin (aes) Cyprium ‎(literally “brass of
Cyprus”), from Ancient Greek Κύπρος ‎(Kúpros, “Cyprus”).

{ngIDvoS} backwards sounds vaguely like "soft thing" in English, and
lead is a soft metal, but I'm not so sure about that one.


On Thu, Oct 29, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Rohan Fenwick <qeslagh at hotmail.com> wrote:
> ghItlhpu' 'antlhe', jatlh:
>> I think I have an idea who Shirley Silver *might* be... Remember that MO
>> used
>> to work on Mutsun, a North American Indian language from California?
>> Well, there seems to be a linguist with that name working on the same area
>> –
>> perhaps they knew each other?
>
> majQa', André! Well spotted. Marc does (or at least did) indeed know Shirley
> Silver; she appears in the acknowledgments of his PhD thesis on the grammar
> of Mutsun.
>
> Also on the California connection, I think that fits for {qol'om} "gold" as
> well. The great California Gold Rush, widely accepted to have begun in 1848,
> was triggered by a fellow named James W. Marshall who discovered gold at a
> property in the Californian town of Coloma.
>
> QeS 'utlh
>
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