Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2021 21:01:53 +0100 From: "De'vID" <de.vid.jonpin@gmail.com> Cc: "tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] expressing baby animals (and words for dog)
I'm sure both that a {Qa'Hom} is a different species than a {Qa'} and that the word is indeed {Qa'} + {-Hom}. So I don't think {-Hom} makes the name of the young of animals.
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.)
Where did you see/hear/read that this was "the standard way" to do so?
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.
Then we have KLV Klingon/Standard Vocabulary - KLV <https://sites.google.com/a/klingonword.org/klv/klv-klingon-standard-vocabulary>, which uses *SarghHom* for "donkey".
I don't think the KLV "translation" project is viewed highly by most skilled Klingon speakers (to put it politely).
Thanks for letting me know! It isn't a Bing-style translation, is it?