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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jav
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Mar 19 10:08:18 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 14:08:05 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, March 19, 2014
>
> Klingon word: jav
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: sixth tone of nonatonic musical scale
> Source: TKD (90 KE, 153 EK)
KGT 73: The independent words for the numbers three through nine were not originally a part of the Klingon counting system, but they had to come from somewhere. The musical scale is the likely source. The word for the fourth musical tone, {loS}, began to be used for the number four, and so on through the eighth tone, {chorgh}.
jav six (num.)
jav prisoner (slang)
KGT 153: The origin of this slang usage of {jav} (literally, "six") is unknown. The usual word for prisoner is {qama'} ... This verb [{luH}] literally means "yank" and is used in such sentences as {jav luHpu' 'avwI'} ("The guard has caused a prisoner to confess"--literally, "The guard has yanked a six"). Standard words expressing the same notions are {DISmoH} (cause to confess) and {peghHa'moH} (cause to not keep a secret).
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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