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ghItlh QeS 'utlh. jang:<br>
The *original* meaning of {ghItlh} may have been "to carve, to
inscribe",
but it's come to have a much wider sense of "write, inscribe" that's
not
restricted to carving of marks on a hard surface. I quote from KGT:
<br>
<br>
"The word {ghItlhwI'} (literally, "engraver") is also used for any
writing
implement as well as for any person who writes. Indeed, the verb
{ghItlh}
is most commonly translated as "write", but it always refers to the
act of
writing - that is, of making marks on some surface - not to the act
of
composition." (KGT pp. 79-80)
So {ghItlh} can describe the inscribing of the Book of Kells just
fine.<br>
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jIjang:<br>
Of course. But since we're talking about a book that is considered
*the* height of medieval calligraphy, I would use {DIj} alone. I
see the <i>Book</i> as a work of *visual* art, of artistic
creation, not a work of writing alone. Personal preference,
perhaps.<br>
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~quljIb<br>
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