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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: jIrmoH
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Apr 8 11:26:41 2015
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 8 Apr 2015 15:26:26 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 08, 2015
>
> Klingon word: jIrmoH
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: twirl *bat'leth*, cause *bat'leth* to rotate
> Source: KGT
KGT 60: There is an extensive vocabulary for the moves associated with bat'leth use. To thrust or lunge toward one's opponent, for example, is {jop}... To twirl or rotate the bat'leth is {jIrmoH} and to toss it from one hand to the other (the same word is used whether left to right or right to left) is {baQ}.
N.B. the causative of {jIr} "rotate, twirl". Not known whether {jIrmoH} is specialized jargon limited to bat'leths only (cf. for example {chuH} "throw/hurl (a spear) at").
SEE ALSO:
yan wield, use or manipulate a sword (v)
jaD throw around, hurl about (V)
jIr rotate, twirl (v)
DIng spin (v)
tlhe' turn (v)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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