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Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhuH (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhuH (n)
• Date: Tue, 10 Feb 2004 10:12:42 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, February 8, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   tlhuH
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     breath

As discussed in the current HolQeD:

   Air, for example, comes into and out of the nose or mouth. The word
   for "breath" is {tlhuH}, and that for "breathe" is also {tlhuH}. To
   breathe in, or "inhale", is {pur}; to breathe out, or "exhale", is
   {rech}. To breathe noisily, or "wheeze", is {jev}... To breathe even
   more noisily, or "snore", is {wuD}. " [HolQeD 12.4:8]

The verb {tlhuH} is also slang meaning "be exhilarated, be stimulated, be 
invigorated":

   Literally meaning "breathe", this word is used in such expressions
   as {jItlhuH} ("I am exhilarated, it's exhilarating to me"; literally,
   "I breathe"). Perhaps a near equivalent in standard Klingon is {Sey}
   ("be excited").  [KGT 165]

Cf. also {muD} "atmosphere" (also "air"?), {SuS} "wind} and {SIp} "gas".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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