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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 6/17/2020 3:25 AM, Lieven L. Litaer
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:7bef890d-68fb-95ff-9883-4efd595fac06@gmx.de">I just
started a page in the Klingon.wiki listing metaphorically used
<br>
words and also metonyms. Okrand did not name them as such, and I
noticed
<br>
ther are others that fit in such alist which were not explicitally
label
<br>
as such, like {Soj} meaning "matter, affair" instead of "food".
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<p>Is that actually a metonym? I understand metonymy to be when you
use an element of a thing to name the thing itself. For instance,
when someone refers to "the crown" to mean the royal ruler. The
crown is an element of the royal person being used to name to the
royal person.</p>
<p><b>Soj</b> <i>food</i> is not an element of a matter or affair
that can be used to name a matter or affair, so it's not a
metonym.<br>
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<blockquote type="cite"
cite="mid:7bef890d-68fb-95ff-9883-4efd595fac06@gmx.de">3. Some
idioms consist of only a noun phrase, like {naH jajmey}.
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Wouldn't that also be a metonymy?</blockquote>
<p>That's not a metonym either.<br>
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