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Re: Klingon WOTD: tuj (n)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: tuj (n)
• Date: Mon, 02 Dec 2002 12:56:11 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, December 1, 2002.
>
>Klingon word:   tuj
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     heat

The noun has never been used in canon.

Note the homophonous verb {tuj} "be hot".  Oddly, the opposite quality 
{bIr} "be cold" does not have a corresponding noun *{bIr} "cold".  (Or 
Maltz simply forgot to mention it.)



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