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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghaytan (adverb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jan 29 11:30:17 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Jan 2008 10:28:49 -0600
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, January 26, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: ghaytan
>Part of Speech: adverb
>Definition: likely
Never used in canon, but its antonym {ghaytanHa'} "unlikely, not likely"
has been:
ghaytanHa' jay'
Not bloody likely! (Radio Times)
Related words:
{chaq} "perhaps, may be"; {qIt} = {DuH} "be possible".
Cf. also the verb suffix {-laH} "able".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
