Is there a Ca'NoN way of naming mountains ? Is mount. olympus {olympus HuD} or {HuD olympus} ? ~ changan qIj
On 3/22/2019 10:29 AM, mayqel qunen'oS wrote:
Is there a Ca'NoN way of naming mountains ?
Is mount. olympus {olympus HuD} or {HuD olympus} ?
The only canonical instance of naming mountains or hills that I know of is from /paq'batlh,/ which has *HuDqIjDaq*/over the Black Hills./ That doesn't answer your question. It does, however, name a river: *SIqral bIQtIq*/River Skral./ I don't see why mountain and hill names wouldn't work the same way:*/Olympus /HuD.* -- SuStel http://trimboli.name
Kri'stak is consistently referred to simply as {QIStaq}. There's also {HuDqIj}, "the Black Hills". For non-Klingon mountains, I'd go with {<name> HuD}, following a pattern similar to {voSpegh Sep} and {tlhIng yoS}. It's also similar to the <name> + <descriptive word> pattern used for many Terran things, such as {Sutra'ber naH}. Interestingly, based on EuroTalk, this qualifier is not used when describing Terran countries. I suspect this is related to whether or not one expects the listener to know what one is talking about; we expect human Klingon-speakers to know what {DoyIchlan} is, so we don't bother calling it {DoyIchlan Sep}. The average Klingon probably wouldn't, so we'd call it {DoyIchlan Sep} or possibly even {tera' DoyIchlan Sep}. Similarly, if we met a Klingon who had been isolated from Klingon society (the survivors of QI'tomer come to mind), we might need to qualify even well-known Klingon sights and locations, such as {QIStaq HuD} or {QIStaq qulHuD}. This is just my speculation, though. //loghaD ________________________________ From: tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org> on behalf of mayqel qunen'oS <mihkoun@gmail.com> Sent: Friday, March 22, 2019 15:29 To: tlhIngan Hol mailing list Subject: [tlhIngan Hol] Naming mountains Is there a Ca'NoN way of naming mountains ? Is mount. olympus {olympus HuD} or {HuD olympus} ? ~ changan qIj
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