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Re: Klingon WOTD: jorneb (n)

Scott Willis ([email protected])

• From: "Scott Willis" <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: jorneb (n)
• Date: Thu, 29 Apr 2004 10:56:50 -0400
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steven Boozer" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, April 29, 2004 10:45 AM
Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: jorneb (n)


>
> >This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, April 29, 2004.
> >
> >Klingon word:   jorneb
> >Part of Speech: noun
> >Definition:     warhead (of a torpedo)
> >
> >Additional Notes:
> >Listed in EK side of KGT and in the text.
> >
> >KGT p. 57.  The warhead of the torpedo is called its {jorneb} (which
seems
> >to contain the verb {jor} ["explode"] but is not otherwise analyzable).
>
> Okrand kept this word in mind, for after the publication of KGT in 1997 he
> revealed {neb} "beak, bill" (n.) in his Klingon bird article in HolQeD
10.4
> (December 2001).  Although he didn't actually mention {jorneb} in the
> article, it now seems likely that Klingons call the pointy, exploding end
> of a missile its "beak" while English-speakers refer to it as a "warHEAD".
>
>
>
> -- 
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons


So, how did the variation(?) {jornub} come about? Canonized typo? Or does
{jornub} mean something entirely different?

--ngabwI'
Beginners' Grammarian,
Klingon Language Institute
http://kli.org/
HovpoH 701475.4

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