On Tuesday, 9 January 2018 23:25:57 GMT qurgh lungqIj wrote:
For "Swifthawk," I'd go with 'apuStoQ. Too bad we can't quite yet infer much about the {'apuS} part. Do I recall correctly that before, Marc said specifically that there isn't a verb for "fast" hence the need to say things like {nom lenglaH Duj}?
A Klingon way to say "dungeon" is wutlh pa'. This is literally "underground room."
Great! A new word, and I don't have to change my most recent draft of "Far over the misty mountains cold" lyrics again. (Thanks to SuStel for the suggestion of {wutlh pa'} last August.) {vI'laSHom HuDmey bIr Hay HopDaq, wutlh pa' jaQ DIS qan je qoDDaq, majaHnISmo' qaSpa' jajlo', qol'ommaj ngo' wISamnISmo'. puHmey jenqu'Daq jach Sormey; qaStaHvIS ram, bey tlhuD SuSmey; Doqqu'choH qul, tInqu'choH qul; meQbogh Sechmey wov rur Sormey.} But it seems to work only for a room that is actually underground. I think some context is missing as there is an extended meaning, and similar rooms might be installed anywhere, even on a ship. Do we have a word for "brig"? Luckily Marc said that was *a* way to say dungeon, which implies there can be others. As for the extended meaning, as your typical torture chamber is associated with the typical dungeon, I think we can cobble something together with the word {joy'}, maybe a {joy'meH pa'}. Further we could work in the word {ngaH} perhaps. (Do we want to say "death by snu-snu" in Klingon?) I did find an interesting word while looking up torture: {be'joy'}, but that's only half the story. mupwI'