charghwI':
How about {tuq}? ghunchu'wI': What “sequence” are you feeling? If I understand the term “bloodline” correctly, I think {nortlham} is the right word. Doesn’t it just refer to direct descendents?
To be honest, since we don't use in Greek the word "bloodline" I can't claim that I understand the English word 100%. One could use in Greek this word, and given the right context I guess one could understand the desired meaning, but it would sound strange. To demonstrate my understanding of the English "bloodline", I'll describe how I came to learn this word: The first time I heard it, was in the title of "Hellraiser: Bloodline"; there, the word is used to describe this situation: in the middle ages there's a French toymaker, who creates a cube, and then the movie has to do with the direct line/succession of descendants starting from that guy. So, when I hear "bloodline", I understand "person A parents person B, then person B parents person C, then C parents D, and so on..". I understand a succession. Suppose now I want to say "Gowron's bloodline". If I write {ghawran tuq}, then I "feel" that this includes all the non-blood related people who married the blood-related descendants of Gowron. Now, true, I could write {ghawran nortlhampu'}, and this seemingly/apparently would focus only on the blood-related people in the gowron lineage. But I "feel" that writing {ghawran nortlhampu'} refers to a whole group of descendants being considered at once, while "gowron's bloodline" is supposed to make the listener focus on the succession of descendancy as in "gowron fathered A, then A fathered B, then B fathered C, etc". Anyways, perhaps I got this all wrong (since we don't use "bloodline" in Greek), so charghwI' and ghunchu'wI' , if you tell me that "Gowron's bloodline" is *exactly* the same with {ghawran nortlhampu'}, then I'll be happy to accept it, since English is your native language. So, is it? As Americans, when you hear "gowron's bloodline", and then {ghawran nortlhampu'}, do you "feel" these two phrases to be *exactly* the same? ~ Dana'an klingon, bingon, no difference at all..