A question for the group-mind...

[James Swallow]

What's the Klingon word for "farmer" (or "peasant")?

 

[Paris]

Check KRAD's A Burning House. It's probably in there...or just PM KRAD...

 

[Lonemagpie]

I'd expect it to be something like pInyav (master of the ground)

 

[MichaelS]

I'd use the standard noun-from-verb formation and say wIjwI (one who farms).

 

[Lonemagpie]

I'd use the standard noun-from-verb formation and say wIjwI (one who farms).

Damned if I could find the word for farm...

 

[MichaelS]

It's in the Klingon Dictionary (updated edition), p. 132. I also checked kli.org, but I could find no better synonym there.

Of course, Jim's best bet would be sending an email to Lawrence Schoen regardless of what we here come up with.

 

[Turtletrekker]

Of course, Broken Bow revealed that the Klingons had "over 80 poly-gutteral dialects", so you could probably just fake it with anything that sounds "grunty" enough and just claim it's from one of the other languages.

 

[James Swallow]

Thanks for the input, chaps.

Of course, Jim's best bet would be sending an email to Lawrence Schoen regardless of what we here come up with.

And away I go...

 

[Lonemagpie]

The mere existence of this thread actually now makes me wonder what the Klingon is for "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"?

 

[UncleRogi]

The mere existence of this thread actually now makes me wonder what the Klingon is for "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"?

^ Qapl'ah!!
(My Klingon is rusty)

 

[EmperorKalan]

The mere existence of this thread actually now makes me wonder what the Klingon is for "I reject your reality and substitute my own!"?

^ Qapl'ah!!
(My Klingon is rusty)

I thought it was tlhIngan maH!

 

[EmperorKalan]

Just to pile on, Hamlet has the word "peasant" in a few places. Anyone have The Klingon Hamlet handy?