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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: nIch
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gaerfindel)
Wed Jun 5 11:30:09 2013
Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2013 11:29:22 -0400
From: Gaerfindel <gaerfindel@hotmail.com>
To: tlhingan-hol@stodi.digitalkingdom.org
In-Reply-To: <ACF6622D959A8842A81E4471BA56A7E001F4F88F@xm-mbx-04-prod.ad.uchicago.edu>
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On 6/5/2013 10:15 AM, Steven Boozer wrote:
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 05, 2013
>>
>> Klingon word: nIch
>> Part of speech: noun
>> Definition: ammunition
> AFAIK never used in canon.
>
> KGT 57: Traditional clothing worn in battle, known as {HIp}, the word currently used to mean uniform, had both a protective function and a more utilitarian one, since it was from the clothing that weapons ({nuHmey}) or ammunition ({nIch}) could be hung.
>
> Related words:
>
> nuH weapon (n)
> ngat gunpowder (n)
>
> bach shoot (v)
>
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
I can just imagine, in days of yore, the <<nuH ra'wI' >> giving orders
to his <<nuHbeqpu'>>--in clipped Klingon, of course:
<<ngat! nIch! Qeq! bach! bIQ! ngat! nIch! Qeq! bach! bIQ!>>
~quljIb
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