Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, February 19, 2017
Klingon word: qarDaSQa' Part of speech: noun Definition: Cardassian Union Source: Klingon Monopoly, published 1 November 2011
qarDaSQa'Daq ruDelya' rop'a' Hergh qengbogh yo' Dabot. Intercept Rudellian plague relief convoy to Cardassian Union. MKE (KGT 142): The syllable {ya'} seems to be used as if it were a suffix meaning "place name". Thus [...] Cardassia is both {qarDaS} and {qarDaSya'}. Note that {qarDaS wa'} "Cardassia Prime" is the Cardassian homeworld (MKE). *{Qa'} seems to be a bound morpheme forming names of political unions. E.g. qarDaSQa' Cardassian Union yuQjIjQa' United Federation of Planets tuqjIjQa' United Kingdom 'amerI'qa' SepjIjQa' United States of America -- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons