On Thu, 11 Apr 2019 at 22:43, Lieven L. Litaer <levinius@gmx.de> wrote:
I have received a clarification on this from Marc Okrand, and his answer even brought a new word:
----------------------------------------------------------------------- What I was driving at is that a {qa'rI'} at or from which one can enter or exit is a {DIn}. There may or may not be a (closed or open) door or gate there, but if there is, that door or gate is a {lojmIt}. That is, there's no special word just because it's a {qa'rI'} door.
(By the way, a doorframe or something similar — something constructed to hold a door or gate, whether the door/gate is there or not — is a {lIvqa'nan}.)
The definition in the KLI New Words list is incorrect and needs to be fixed: https://www.kli.org/about-klingon/new-klingon-words/D/ "Open entryway (to corridor, tunnel, conduit, Jeffries tube, branch of sewer) [This is the open entryway of any enclosed space longer than wide in which people might find themselves. If there is a door that closes, this is not a {DIn}. It is merely a {lojmIt}.]" -- De'vID