Am 02.05.2019 um 18:03 schrieb mayqel qunen'oS:
But how do we say spring and autumn ?
Of course, the short answer is: we don't know. But since I know you do not like that answer, I'll go into a longer answer. :-) There are several ways to express that concept. The first one of course would be based on the temperature, which we have {bIr} and {tuj}. So You could say something like {tujchoHbogh qImroq} and {bIrchoHbogh qImroq}, seasons who are getting cold/warm. One other way is to go and use the verbs for precede and follow, and call spring the before-summer and fall the before-winter, but that will start the discussion if fall counts as late summer or early winter. Next, if you stick to earth rhythms, you could simply name spring as {qImroq wa'DIch}, but again that's very Earth focused, and being very strict, the year starts with winter, so even that is not so clear. So to say it as general as possible, I would try to describe the season regarding to what happens, even a little peotic: {ghub qImroq} "season of buds", {'InSong qImroq} "season of flowers", {por QaD qImroq} "dry leaf season", {chuch qImroq} "ice season". But who knows, maybe Klingons connect their season to celestial objects, or maybe they even have only two seasons? Alls of these are only suggestions, of course. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/StarTrekDiscovery