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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tlhoS

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Dec 28 10:06:43 2011

From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 09:06:28 -0600
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, December 28, 2011
> 
> Klingon word: tlhoS
> Part of speech: adv
> Definition: almost, nearly, virtually, not quite

Oddly enough, never used in canon.  (Is it used in the paq'batlh?)


Similar adverbials:

{loQ}  "slightly, a little bit, briefly, short" 
{rut}	  "sometimes, occasionally"

Cf. also the verb suffixes {-qoq}, {-Hey}, {-law'}.


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons


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