English: memory, recollection
German: Erinnerung, Reminiszenz
Spanish: recuerdo
Source: Email from Lieven 2018-02-06
KLCP Level: 3
(MO > Lieven, 2/05/2018 re DSC ep. 114): Using qaw "remember" seems to work in your example of Dochmey qawbogh "things he remembers/remembered."
But I agree Ć¢ā¬ā it's a little awkward. And what one remembers should probably be described as something better or descriptive than simply "things."
We've got qawHaq "memory banks." Maltz didn't know what Haq in this word was. (He said it has nothing to do with surgery Ć¢ā¬ā that's just a coincidence.) But qaw, he said, is a perfectly fine noun meaning "memory" in the sense of the ability to remember or the power of recall. It does not refer to specific memories or recollections. That's a different word: wov'on.
It's more common to hear wov'on qaw "he/she remembers a memory" than wov'on ghaj "he/she has a memory," though the colloquial (English) translation of the former would be "he/she has a memory." Someone who remembers a lot of stuff or who can easily remember things (like dates or lines of a play) may be said to have a qaw pov "excellent memory."
(KGT 101f.): When taking a table's order, the jabwI' neither writes anything down nor enters data into a computer. It is considered the duty of the jabwI' to remember (qaw) the choices and to bring the correct food, and servers tend to be quite skilled at this.
SEE ALSO:
ghov recognize (v)
lIj forget (v)
There is no usage for this word in the database.
