tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 03 12:38:45 2004

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Re: Klingon WOTD: DIng (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: DIng (v)
• Date: Tue, 03 Feb 2004 12:46:13 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, February 1, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   DIng
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     spin

Never used in canon.

Cf. also {jIr} "rotate, twirl", {bav} "orbit" and {tlhe'} "turn".

My suspicion is that all these verbs work like {jIr} - that is, the stem is 
intransitive and the stem plus {-moH} is transitive (cf. {jIrmoH} "twirl 
bat'leth, cause bat'leth to rotate" [KGT 60]).  As it happens, neither 
{bav} nor {tlhe'} have been used in canon so this remains speculation.



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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