tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 03 07:38:44 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: chaQ (verb)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, February 3, 2005.
>
>Klingon word: chaQ
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: thrust upward with end of [bat'leth]
Never used in a sentence.
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 60: To thrust either end of the [bat'leth] (as opposed to the lon=
g=20
>part of the blade) upward is {chaQ}.
More bat'leth vocabulary:
There is an extensive vocabulary for the moves associated with
bat'leth use. To thrust or lunge toward one's opponent, for
example, is {jop}. To deflect a thrust=ADthat is, to parry--is
{way'}. To thrust either end of the bat'leth (as opposed to the
long part of the blade) upward is {chaQ}. To change the approxi-
mate orientation of the weapon from horizontal to vertical is
{ngol}; the reverse is {lev}. To slide the blade of one's bat'leth
along the blade of the opponent's weapon is {DIj}. To twirl or
rotate the bat'leth is {jIrmoH} and to toss it from one hand to
the other (the same word is used whether left to right or right
to left) is {baQ}. [KGT 59-60]
Two more general verbs WRT swordplay are {yan} "wield, use or manipulate =
a=20
sword" and {jej} "be sharp".
Useful nouns for describing your bat'leth include {'etlh} "blade" and=20
{ret'aq} "handle, hilt".
A weapon that is particularly good, that is well designed and well
constructed, is normally described as {vaQ}. Thus, a {taj vaQ} is
a meticulously made knife and a {ghanjaq vaQ} is an especially nice
mace. In speaking about a fine weapon, one could compliment it even
further by adding the emphatic {-qu'} to {vaQ}. A really spectacular
*bat'leth* would be a {betleH vaQqu'}. [KGT 67]
We don't know what the four sharp tips of the bat'leth are called - no=20
doubt it's specialized vocabulary - but the sharp tip (spearhead) of a=20
spear is called the {QIn}. {DuQwI'} "spike" is also a possibility. The=20
general words for either end of a bat'leth (or any other long object) are=
=20
{'er'In} and {megh'an}, used together.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons