<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Thu, Mar 28, 2019 at 2:14 PM mayqel qunen'oS <<a href="mailto:mihkoun@gmail.com">mihkoun@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div id="gmail-m_-3758929334888234204d_1553796759567"><p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I was wondering how to say:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">"the sith lord was surrounded by a halo of black light"</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">I was at a loss, until it came to me:</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">{sith joH Dech tamghay qIj Qeb}</p>
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<p dir="ltr" style="margin-top:0px;margin-bottom:0px">Now, I know.. oh, I know *too well*, that someone is ready to hit "reply" and say something like "Qeb is only to be used for the ring which one wears on a finger"..</p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">I'll get that out of the way: {Qeb} is probably only for rings on fingers (though it's also slang for a ponytail holder). But {tamghay gho} also works pretty well for the general idea of a halo, I think, at least in the traditional Christian iconography sense of "halo". I'm not sure it quite works for an aura.<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default">One thing to consider: Why use a noun at all? Something using {wew} "glow", {tlhuD} or {rIS} "emit", {wov} "be bright, light" could all work. {wew _sith_ joH. tamghay qIj rIS.} "The sith lord glowed; he emitted black light."<br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div><div style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif" class="gmail_default"><br></div></div></div></div>