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Re: wot <<poH>>

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: wot <<poH>>
• Date: Mon, 19 Jul 2004 09:45:39 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>chay' wot <<poH>> lo'lu'? lugh'a' mu'tlheghmeyvam?

We don't know.  The verb {poH} "time" has never been used in canon or 
explained by Okrand AFAIK.

>1. qetwI'pu' tIpoH. wa' SaD 'uj chuq ghoSmeH tup 'ar lupoQ?
>
>    "Time the runners. How many seconds do they need to
>     cover the distance of 350 meters?"
>
>[poH = to measure the speed]

I suspect it's this meaning.  Since the noun {poH} means "period of time", 
it makes sense that the verb *might* refer to measuring this period - i.e. 
"have a time (period) of" - like the other measuring verbs {'ab}  and {'aD} 
"have a length of, measure"; {juch} "have a width of"; {muq} {have a volume 
of}; {ngI'} "have a weight of, weigh" and {Saw'} "have a depth of".

>2. yot yIpoHchu'. DughDI' jagh yIHIvchoHQo'.
>
>    "Time the invasion well. Do not begin the attack when
>    the enemy is vigilant."
>
>[poH = choose the moment for]

{nab} "plan, plot" works well for this or even {poH yIwIv} "choose the 
(period of) time" in a pinch (though {poH} seems to refer not to a point in 
time, but rather a stretch of time or a "window of opportunity" in context).



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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