On 6/17/2020 3:25 AM, Lieven L. Litaer wrote:
I just started a page in the Klingon.wiki listing metaphorically used words and also metonyms. Okrand did not name them as such, and I noticed ther are others that fit in such alist which were not explicitally label as such, like {Soj} meaning "matter, affair" instead of "food".
Is that actually a metonym? I understand metonymy to be when you use an element of a thing to name the thing itself. For instance, when someone refers to "the crown" to mean the royal ruler. The crown is an element of the royal person being used to name to the royal person. *Soj* /food/ is not an element of a matter or affair that can be used to name a matter or affair, so it's not a metonym.
3. Some idioms consist of only a noun phrase, like {naH jajmey}. Wouldn't that also be a metonymy?
That's not a metonym either. -- SuStel http://trimboli.name