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

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue May 29 16:02:09 2012

From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 29 May 2012 20:01:55 +0000
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> Klingon word:   DaH
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     weapons array, bank (of weapons)

As used in canon:

  pIvchem lIngwI' DaHmey: cha' 
  Warp Field Generation Arrays - 2. KBoP

KGT 56:  Larger and more powerful disruptors are mounted on the ship, laid out as {nISwI' DaH} or disruptor banks... The more general term pu', phaser, may also apply to the Klingon disruptor... Since the word is short, {pu'} is heard frequently--even more frequently than {nISwI'}--especially in the throes of combat, in such formations as ... {pu'DaH} (phaser banks)... 

We see from the BOP Poster that {DaH} can apply to things other than weapons:

begh DaH 				deflector array 
pIvchem lIngwI' DaH 	warp field generation array
pIvghor lIngwI' DaH 	warp generation array
So'wI' DaH 			cloak array

{DaH} may be an element in {chuyDaH} "thrusters" (pl. n.) - an array of smaller {vIj}?  Which of course begs the question:  What's a *{chuy}?  (The verb {chuy} "sneeze" doesn't appear to be relevant.)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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