[84533] in tlhIngan-Hol
Re: Klingon WOTD: ngIp (verb)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Apr 29 10:48:44 2008
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2008 09:45:16 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, April 29, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: ngIp
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: borrow
Never used in canon.
Okrand discussing borrowing:
KGT 72: It is possible that, at some time in the past, the numerals were
"borrowed" into the lexicon of music in order to sing the scale [...] It is
far more likely, however, that the borrowing went in the other direction"
(KGT 72)
KGT 205: For example, one language may borrow (and, in the process,
phonetically modify) a word for a concept it lacks.
>Antonyms: noj
"lend"
Related verbs:
{nob} "give" vs. {nobHa'} "give back, return":
Huch nobHa'bogh verenganpu''e' yIvoqQo'
Don't trust Ferengi who give back money. TKW
Cf. also {tatlh} "return (s.th.)":
st.k 7/99: A different verb, {tatlh}, is used for "return" in the sense of
returning a library book or returning a weapon to the weapons rack. If
someone were to say something like "I return the plate to the table," the
appropriate verb would be {tatlh}: {raSDaq jengva' vItatlh} "I return the
plate to the table."
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
