Re: new Klingon spelling

John Cowan wrote:

>Andreas Johansson scripsit:
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>>_German-_ meanng "relatives"? Do you have any more info on that?
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>Plain Latin: a better reading would be "the siblings".  It's possible that
>the Latin word Germanus 'a German' has nothing to do with the ordinary
>adj. germanus 'of a brother/sister, real, genuine', but surely that's the
>null hypothesis.  We also have OIr gair 'neighbor', which would suggest
>"neighbors [of the Celts]" as a reading.
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>>I've seen the meaning "spearmen" suggested.
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>Also possible:  Common Gmc *gair- 'spear'.
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As in:

Hwæt! We gar-dena in gear-dagum
Listen!  We of spear-danes in yore-days

First line of Beowulf.  The verb (gefrunon), hear, comes in the second line.