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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ruq'e'vet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Aug 28 10:18:15 2014
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 14:18:05 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, August 28, 2014
>
> Klingon word: ruq'e'vet
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: Ruk'evet (city in the Gevchok region)
KGT 17: On rare occasion, a place's name can be traced to an individual or family, such as ... {ruq'e'vet} (Ruk'evet), a city in the {ghevchoq Sep} (Gevchok region), named for a warrior (whether actual or mythological is a matter of dispute) who singlehandedly defeated an invading force.
{ruq'e'vet Hol} Ruk'evet dialect (n)
KGT 30: while the verb {ghIH} means "be messy, sloppy" in {ta' Hol} and in most dialects, in the towns near Ruk'evet ({ruq'e'vet}), {ghIH} means "be careless". The more widespread word for be careless is {yepHa'}, and this word is used in addition to {ghIH} in the Ruk'evet area. To say "be messy, sloppy", the Ruk'evet inhabitants say {Soy'}, a verb meaning "be clumsy" elsewhere. The Ruk'evet word for "be clumsy" is {jat}, which is phonetically identical to the noun meaning "tongue".
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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