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Re: Klingon WOTD: pub (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: pub (v)
• Date: Thu, 08 Jul 2004 10:07:14 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, July 8, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   pub
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     boil

As used in canon:

   pubtaHbogh ghargh HIq vItlhutlh.
   I will drink Boiling Worm Wine. PK

   tujpa' qul pub SuvwI' 'Iw.
   A warrior's blood boils before the fire is hot. TKW

As discussed by Okrand:

   If heat is used as part of food preparation, the cook is most likely
   to {mIQ} (deep-fry) the food. This involves first acquiring {tlhagh}
   (animal fat) from any available source and then heating it up so that
   it boils (the general word for "boil" is {pub}, but the verb used
   specifically to refer to the boiling of fat is {'Im} ["render"]).
   After it has been boiling for a while, the food to be fried is tossed
   in (sometimes having been coated [{pID}] in some kind of paste), and
   it stays there until it has soaked up as much of the {tlhagh} (fat)
   as possible. A particularly popular dish, {tlhombuS}, requires that
   the cook coat a block of {tlhagh} [animal fat] with a mixture of {ngat}
   (herbed granulated cartilage) and {tIr} (grain) and then briefly immerse
   the block into the already boiling fat, just until the coating hardens.
   (KGT 93)

Cf. also {jIn} "brew".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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