Presumably, "bronze" is only an approximate translation of {jey' Sorpuq}, and vice versa, as there are some forms of bronze which do not include tin (and, at least in theory, some copper-bronze alloys which are not bronzes). A historically notable example is arsenical bronze. Arguably, translating "the Bronze Age" as {jey' Sorpuq bov} would be inaccurate, because it seems that arsenical bronze deserves nearly as much credit as tin bronze. That being said, it could also be an example of a pars pro toto synecdoche, where something large (the set of all bronzes) is named for a particular example or subset (the set of tin bronzes). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pars_pro_toto ________________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2017 17:28 To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jey' Sorpuq
Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 18, 2017
Klingon word: jey' Sorpuq Part of speech: noun Definition: bronze Source: qepHom 2016
jey' tin (n) Sorpuq copper (n) COMPARE: 'uSqan iron (n) ghav 'uSqan steel (n) velSo' 'uSqan stainless steel (n) ghav carbon (n) velSo' chromium (n) SEE ALSO: Qu cast (metal) (v) QumeH ngaSwI' mold (for casting) (n) baS metal (n) -- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org