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Re: Klingon WOTD: wep (n)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: wep (n)
• Date: Tue, 28 Jan 2003 10:12:06 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, January 28, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   wep
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     shirt with sleeves
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT.  (regional).

Discussed in KGT (pp.29-30):

   In the First City, and in most places in the Empire, {wep} means "jacket,
   coat" and {yIvbeH} means "tunic"--that is, a shirt or shirtlike garment
   with or without sleeves. In the Vospeg ({voSpegh}) region, on the other
   hand, {yIvbeH} refers only to a sleeveless shirt (thus retaining much of
   the word's original meaning, a sleeveless protective garment worn by
   warriors), {wep} means a shirt with sleeves, and any jacket or coat is
   a {cheSvel}, a word that elsewhere refers to a specific style of coat
   associated with, not surprisingly, the Vospeg region.



-- 
Voragh                            "Damage control is easy. Reading Klingon 
- that's
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons      hard!"                  (Montgomery 
Scott, STIV)

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