Klingonist en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
Etymology tree English Klingon Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō) Proto-Hellenic *-tās Ancient Greek -τής (-tḗs) Ancient Greek -ῐστής (-ĭstḗs)bor. Latin -istader. Old French -istebor. Middle English -ist English -ist English Klingonist From Klingon + -ist.
Meanings
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A specialist or speaker of the Klingon language.
If a controversy breaks out among scholars about the dating of the Great Vowel Shift, or among Klingonists about the correct translation of 'loaves and fishes', the effect on most people's lives is negligible.
1995, Deborah Cameron, Verbal hygiene, page 223:It is certainly true that many Klingonists use only the Roman orthography (I myself do not use pIqaD much, if at all). But then, some people write Sanskrit only with Devanagari characters, and never use other Bramhi scripts for it, yet we still encode Sanskrit-specific characters in those other scripts.
2016, Mark Shoulson, “pIqaD (Klingon) and its Usage”, in Unicode, archived from the original on 24 Aug 2021, page 2:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| Klingonists | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Lojbanist · Tokiponist · Volapükist · Esperantist · Idist
Translations (12)
ru клингонистка (specialist or speaker of Klingon) · eo klingonisto (specialist or speaker of Klingon) · es klingonista (specialist or speaker of Klingon) · io Klingonisto (specialist or speaker of Klingon) · fr klingoniste (specialist or speaker of Klingon) · pl klingonista (specialist or speaker of Klingon) · nl klingonist (specialist or speaker of Klingon) · pl klingonistka (specialist or speaker of Klingon) · nl klingoniste (specialist or speaker of Klingon) · de Klingonist (specialist or speaker of Klingon) · de Klingonistin (specialist or speaker of Klingon) · ru клингонист (specialist or speaker of Klingon)