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Re: Klingon WOTD: juch (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, October 13, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   juch
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     have a width of
>
>Additional Notes:
> >From Okrand, MSN 10/22/97.

   There are two words used for length: {'aD} and {'ab}. Both of these
   can be translated as "have a length of", but they are used somewhat
   differently. {'aD} is used in contrast with {juch} "have a width of"
   in measuring, say, a table top. {'ab}, on the other hand, is used
   for (potentially) longish, skinnyish things (for example, spears)
   and also for heights.                                (MSN 10/22/97)

There are no examples of {juch}, but it should work just like {'ab} and {'aD}:

   wej 'ujmey 'ab 'oy'naQ
   Painstiks are a little over one meter long S32

   jav 'ujmey 'ab SuvwI'
   the warrior has a length of six ujs
   the warrior stands six ujs
   the warrior is six ujs tall (MSN 10/22/97)]

   vagh 'ujmey vI'ab
   I have a length of five ujs
   I'm five ujs tall

   wej 'uj 'ab naQjej
   the spear has a length of three uj
   the spear measures three uj
   the spear is three uj long  (MSN 10/22/97)

   wejvatlh loSmaH loS vI' vagh wej 'uj 'aD Duj
   Length: 120 M. (KBoP)

Units of linear measure in everyday use are the {'uj} (about 35 cm.) and 
the {'uj'a'} (about 3.15 m.)  Before anyone asks, Okrand tells us that 
there is no such measure as *{'ujHom}.



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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