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Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhIlHal (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhIlHal (n)
• Date: Wed, 03 Dec 2003 14:01:54 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, December 2, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   tlhIlHal
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     mine

As used in canon:

   cha'puj tlhIlHal vISuch vIneH.
   I want to visit the dilithium mines. CK

   tlhIlHal yIngev!
   Sell the mine! KGT

   tlhIlHal yIngIv!
   Patrol the mine! KGT

There has been some discussion as to whether {tlhIlHal} refers to the 
mineshaft only (i.e. the tunnel {'och}), the operation as a whole (i.e. 
buildings, roads, etc.), or both.

Note the noun {tlhIl} "mineral", the homophonous verb {tlhIl} "mine" and 
the derived noun {tlhIlwI'} "miner".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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