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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: pIq
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Nov 8 10:31:40 2012
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2012 15:31:02 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, November 08, 2012
>
> Klingon word: pIq
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: time period from now (future)
cha' tup pIq
two minutes from now (HQ 8.3)
cha' tupmey pIq
two minutes from now (HQ 8.3)
HQ 8.3 p.3: It follows the noun specifying the length of time involved, as in {cha' tup pIq} "two minutes from now". It is to {poH} what {leS} is to {jaj}. (One might say that these are associated with the word {poH} "period of time".) These words follow the more specific time units. For example, two minutes ago is {cha' tup ret}, literally "two minute time-period-ago." Two minutes from now is {cha' tup pIq}. (It is also possible, though not necessary, to use the plural suffixes with the time units if there is more than one of them: {cha' tupmey ret}, {cha' tupmey pIq}.) The words {ret} and {pIq} could also be used with days, months, and years (e.g., {wej jaj ret} "three days ago", rather than {wejHu'}, but utterances of these are not particularly common, sound a bit archaic, and are usually restricted to rather formal settings. With longer time periods, such as a century ({vatlh DIS poH}), millennium ({SaD DIS poH}), or a period of 10,000 years (myriad, perhaps) ({netlh DIS poH}), the words {ret} or {pIq} may be used in place of {poH}, e.g., {cha' vatlh DIS poH} "two centuries", but {cha' vatlh DIS ret} "two centuries ago". The phrase {cha' vatlh ben} would mean "200 years ago". The choice of construction depends on what is being emphasized: in this case, the total number of centuries (two) or the total number of years (200).
Related words:
ret period of time ago (n)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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