Re: new Klingon spelling

On Tue, 6 Jan 2004, michael poxon wrote:

> It looks as though "Deutsch" - if meaning 'people' is related to Welsh 'tud'
> meaning more or less the same thing.
`Deutsch' means 'of the people'. `People' would be _deut_, though I'm not
sure if it survived (the English cognate, which would've been *thead IIRC,
certainly didn't). I think _Deutsch_ would've been *theedish in English,
though if it was, it probably would've regularised back to *theadish.

I don't know if _tud_ is related or not, and
http://www.bartleby.com/61/roots/IE532.html doesn't help any.

My conlang, Føtisk, is cognate to _Deutsch_ as well. (Th > f, eu > /2:/,
some random devoicing which I must've justified at one stage, or maybe I
just wasn't paying attention when I named it.)

> Mike
> > >
> > > "The relatives", "all the men" (or "the all-men"), "the
> dumb/speechless",
> > > "the people" respectively.
> >
> > _German-_ meanng "relatives"? Do you have any more info on that?
> >
> > I've seen the meaning "spearmen" suggested.
>
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