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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: nav
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jun 3 10:12:00 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 14:11:53 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 03, 2014
>
> Klingon word: nav
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: paper
Huch nav
bill (i.e. currency) MKE
"But [Maltz] did know the word for plan (the big piece of paper). He said it's {pu'jIn} - same as the word for map." (email from Marc Okrand to Lieven L. Litaer, 11/20/2009)
Worf gave a bound paper copy of "The Dream of the Fire" (a famous Klingon novel by K'ratak) to Data as a going-away present. (TNG "Measure of a Man")
Qua'lon gave Pok a leather-bound paper(?) copy of the score to {qul tuq} ("House of Fire", a popular Klingon opera telling the tale of the House of SepIch) as his {cha'nob}. (KCD)
Similar words:
mavjop paper clip (n)
ghItlh manuscript (n)
De' chu' ghItlh newspaper (n)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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