<div dir="auto">This whole subject reminds me of something similar I had read about the ancient Spartans, i.e. that they felt contempt for any type of weapon which would kill from afar. So, perhaps -culturally-, this or something similar could apply for klingons as well.<div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">On the other hand, De'vID's comment was indeed very interesting, i.e. describing an arrow with the word for spear plus the {-Hom}.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">And taking this further, perhaps the ideal thing to do would be saying {thlevjaQHom} in order to describe an "arrow", since the other types of klingon spears are "hand held ones", in contrast to the {tlhevjaQ}, which is thrown with the aid of a special tool.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Or perhaps we could say also {tlhevjaQ mach}..</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">qunnoq</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 19 Jul 2017 5:31 pm, "De'vID" <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" target="_blank">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">On 19 July 2017 at 16:26, mayqel qunenoS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br>
> I can't understand why there isn't a klingon word for "arrow".<br>
><br>
> How is it possible, that the almighty warrior race never invented arrows or<br>
> apparently never came to know them ?<br>
<br>
It's obvious that a so-called "arrow" is just a {-Hom}ed version of a<br>
"spear". Klingon has vocabulary dealing with spears and spear-throwing<br>
devices.<br>
<br>
--<br>
De'vID<br>
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