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Re: Klingon WOTD: ngaS (v)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ngaS (v)
• Date: Fri, 21 Mar 2003 10:39:22 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, March 21, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   ngaS
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     contain (have inside)

As used in canon:

   jagh lucharghlu'ta'bogh HuH ghopDu'lIj lungaSjaj
   May the bile of the vanquished fill your hands! PK

   bIQ ngaS HIvje'
   The cup contains water (idiom: be quite mistaken, be totally wrong") KGT

   bIQ ngaS HIvje'lIj
   Your cup contains water (i.e. "You're all wrong"). KGT

   yoq yIn yuQ 'oH Qo'noS'e'. yInSIp voQSIp je ngaS muDDaj.
   Qo'noS is a class-M planet with an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere. S27

Usage note:  When asked about {bav} "orbit", Okrand commented in HolQeD 7.4 
that "You don't need a {-Daq}. Just use whatever it is that you are 
orbiting."  When subsequently asked about {ngaS}, Okrand said, "Same thing."

Don't confuse {ngaS} with {Sev} "contain (an enemy)".

Related words include {qat} "wrap, encase".  Cf. also {buy'} "be full, be 
filled up" and {teb} "fill".

Before we learned of {bal} "jug, jar, bottle" in KGT, most of us used the 
all-purpose *{ngaSwI'} "container".


-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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