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Re: Klingon WOTD: 'avwI' (n)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: 'avwI' (n)
• Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 12:06:27 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, March 15, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   'avwI'
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     guard
>
>Canon:
>TKW p. 200
>'avwI' nejDI' narghta'bogh qama' reH 'avwI' Sambej
>When an escaped prisoner looks for a guard, he always finds one.

Elsewhere in canon:

mughoS 'avwI' 'ar
How many guards are coming? CK

tlhIngan 'avwI' lughom
They meet a Klingon guard. PK

jang 'avwI'
The guard answers. PK
The guard replies. PK

'avwI'vaD jatlh qama'
A prisoner says to the guard... PK

jatlh 'avwI'
The guard says... PK

pawpu' 'avwI' paghDIch
the zeroth guard has arrived KGT

'avwI' vaghDIch
fifth guard KGT

'avwI' Hay' yaS
The officer duels the guard. KGT

jav luHpu' 'avwI'
The guard has caused a prisoner to confess. (slang)
(literally: "The guard has yanked a six") KGT



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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