[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: wab qoSta' 'aplo'

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, April 17, 2016
> 
> Klingon word: wab qoSta' 'aplo'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: cassette
> Source: TalkNow - Learn Klingon!, revealed 30 September 2011

I.e. a cassette tape (audiotape, audiocassette).

qoSta'  	ribbon,  tape (n) (TNK)

(qe'San, 8/11/13):  {qoSta'} = a ribbon-like tape (i.e. the physical quality)

  mIllogh qonwI' qoSta'  
  film (TNK) (e.g. for a {mIllogh qonwI'} "camera")

'aplo'  	small container (general term) (n) (e.g. cassette,
           case, box, etc.) (TNK)

(qe'San, 8/11/13):  {'aplo'} = a general term for a small container

  'ul 'aplo'mey 
  batteries (TNK)

  ngaS 'aplo' 
  contents [of box] (MKE) ("the {'aplo'} contains")


So *{mIllogh qoSta' 'aplo'} would be a videotape cassette.  (Remember those?!)  Nowadays we use {De' jengva'/ngop} "CD(s), compact disc(s) and sometime soon we'll probably store our files and images on a *{De' qut} "data crystal" - that is when they're not up in the *{De' 'eng} "the Cloud"!


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