[84519] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: nech (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon Apr 28 11:02:39 2008
Date: Mon, 28 Apr 2008 10:01:33 -0500
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, April 27, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: nech
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: be lateral, move laterally
Never used in canon.
Can {nech} also cover "move side-to-side", "move horizontally", "slide"?
N.B. "Lateral power!" was an order to the helmsman to bank the Enterprise
starboard (or port) using the impulse engines. (TOS "Where No Man Has Gone
Before")
Related verbs:
{Don} "be parallel, go parallel to" & {SaS} "be horizontal".
"To slide the blade of one's bat'leth along the blade of the opponent's
weapon is {DIj}." (KGT 59)
Related nouns:
{Dop} "side"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
