<html><head></head><body><div class="yahoo-style-wrap" style="font-family:Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;"><div dir="ltr"><div></div>>Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 21:01:53 +0100<br></div><div id="ydpddf2ba88yahoo_quoted_8958836152" class="ydpddf2ba88yahoo_quoted"><div style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;font-size:13px;color:#26282a;"><div><div dir="ltr">>From: "De'vID" <<a href="mailto:de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com</a>><br></div>>Cc: "<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</a>" <<a href="mailto:tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org</a>><br><div dir="ltr">>Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] expressing baby animals (and words for<br></div><div dir="ltr"> dog)<br></div></div><div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div>>I'm sure both that a {Qa'Hom} is a different species than a {Qa'} and that<br><div dir="ltr">>the word is indeed {Qa'} + {-Hom}. So I don't think {-Hom} makes the name<br></div><div dir="ltr">>of the young of animals. <br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">This is a good point! I hadn't even thought of *Qa'* and *Qa'Hom*. The Qa'Hom is more mouse-like, and the Qa' more rat-like, right? (Because rats are bigger than mice.)<br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">>Where did you see/hear/read that this was "the<br></div><div dir="ltr">>standard way" to do so?<br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false">It was some post several months ago on this list that mentioned it in passing. Unfortunately, I can no longer find the post. I tried googling *vIghro'Hom" and "DIraqHom" and other similar words, but those searches didn't pull up anything relevant either.</div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div><div dir="ltr" data-setdir="false"><br></div>>> Then we have KLV Klingon/Standard Vocabulary - KLV<br><div dir="ltr">>> <<a href="https://sites.google.com/a/klingonword.org/klv/klv-klingon-standard-vocabulary" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sites.google.com/a/klingonword.org/klv/klv-klingon-standard-vocabulary</a>>,<br></div><div dir="ltr">>> which uses *SarghHom* for "donkey".<br></div><div dir="ltr">>><br></div><div dir="ltr">><br></div><div dir="ltr">>I don't think the KLV "translation" project is viewed highly by most<br></div><div dir="ltr">>skilled Klingon speakers (to put it politely).<br></div><br><div><br></div><div>Thanks for letting me know!</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div dir="ltr">It isn't a Bing-style translation, is it?</div></div>
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