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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: DeghwI'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Fri Jul 31 10:11:23 2015
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Fri, 31 Jul 2015 14:11:04 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, July 31, 2015
>
> Klingon word: DeghwI'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: helmsman
DeghwI' <He chu'>. So'wI' yIchu'
[Helmsman... New course! Engage cloaking device. (novel)] ST6
KGT 53: There are a number of words employed to describe the specific functions performed by officers on a ship, but none of these is used as a title. For example ... the helmsman is the {DeghwI'}.
KGT 149f.: This expression may be based on {DeghwI'} (helmsman). There is no known verb {Degh}, but if there were such a word, presumably it would mean steer, and {DeghwI'}, then, would be literally "one who steers", formed from {Degh} plus the suffix {-wI'} (one who does [something]). There is a related noun {Degh} (helm), but since {-wI'} follows only verbs, there must have been a verb {Degh} at one time that has fallen out of use, at least in the sense of steer ... in the usual sense of guiding a vessel along a set course or defined path
HQ 11.2: In general, {'or} ["operate (an aircraft), pilot"] would not be used to refer to the activities of the captain of a spacecraft, or even those of its helmsman, but Maltz said it could be used for the controlling of a shuttlecraft.
SEE ALSO:
chIjwI' navigator
'orwI' pilot
N.B. Do not confuse the nouns {Degh} "helm" and {Degh} "medal, emblem, symbol, insignia, marking, mark".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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