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Re: Klingon WOTD: Qan (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Qan (v)
• Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2003 12:03:52 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, December 22, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   Qan
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     protect

As used in canon:

   Qang yIQan
   [Protect the Chancellor! (untranslated)] ST6

   ghop luQan tajHommey
   [the blades] providing both a hand guard... SP2

   qaQan
   I protect you. STC:KLS

Mentioned in KGT:

   Literally meaning "be dry", the word {QaD} may be applied to just about
   anything: a person, object, place, and so forth. For example, {QaD puq}
   ("The child is dry") means that the child is safe; {vengHom QaD} ("dry
   village") means that the village is protected. This slang meaning may
   have developed in part because of the Klingon association of water with
   weakness (as opposed to the strength of blood or ale, for that matter)
   and in part because of the phonetic similarity of {QaD} to {Qan}
   ("protect"). In the Krotmag dialect, source of many idiomatic expressions,
   {QaD} would be pronounced almost as if {Qan}" [KGT 161]

Note the derived noun {QanwI'} "guard":

   tal QanwI'
   cannon guard KBoP

which refers to protective armor plating.  (For people use {'avwI'} "guard".)

Cf. also the verbs {yoD} "shield", {toD} "rescue, save" and {'av} "guard".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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