Re: trill identification
| From: | Philip Newton <philip.newton@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, November 5, 2008, 19:17 |
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On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 18:48, Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...> wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 5, 2008 at 12:20 PM, Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...> wrote:
>> P.S. Yeah, yeah, I know it's been referred to as 'Klinzhai' and 'Kling' too.
>> But the former's non-canon, and the latter's canonically a city/district on
>> Qo'noS.
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> And presumably the source of the name "Klingon".
Via {tlhIngan}, which is presumably {tlhIng} + {ngan}, i.e.
"inhabitant of Kling [district]".
(The {ng} of {ngan} seems to assimilate a preceding alveolar or velar
nasal; cg. {vulqangan}, {verengan}, and {'orghengan}, so a bimorphemic
{tlhIngan} makes sense to me.)
Cheers,
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Philip Newton <philip.newton@...>