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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: taD
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Jun 26 10:20:36 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 26 Jun 2014 14:20:25 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, June 26, 2014
>
> Klingon word: taD
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be frozen
yItaD
Freeze! [i.e. Stand perfectly still!] KCD
petaD!
["Freeze!" (shouted by Gowron)] (KCD novel)
KGT 117: These are idiomatic ways to give the command "Don't move!" The word {yItaD} is used when speaking to an individual; {petaD} is used when giving the command to a group. The verb {taD} means "be frozen", and it is used here in a peculiar, though not really ungrammatical, way. Generally, when a verb describing a state of being (for example, {tuj} ["be hot"]) is used in the imperative form, the suffixes {-'egh} (reflexive suffix) and {-moH} (cause) are used as well: {yItuj'eghmoH} ("Heat yourself!" - that is, "Cause yourself to be hot!"), {yItaD'eghmoH!} ("Freeze yourself!" - that is, "Cause yourself to be frozen!"). When {taD} is used in the idiomatic sense of "not move", however, it is treated as if a verb describing an activity, such as {yIt} (walk): {yIyIt!} ("Walk!").
TKW 190: Rura Penthe is a frozen asteroid used by Klingons as a penal colony for enemies of the Empire...
Similar words:
taDmoH freeze (v)
bIr be cold (v)
peD snow (v)
tet melt (v)
chuch ice (n)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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