tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 28 07:50:37 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: po (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, January 28, 2005.
>
>Category: General
>
>Klingon word: po
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: morning
Never used in a canonical sentence, but mentioned by Okrand in:
{DaHjaj po} "this morning" (lit. "today morning" or "today's
morning") ... Phrases such as {jajvam po} "this day morning"
or "this morning" are not common, but they're not ungramma-
tical either... {wa'leS po} "tomorrow morning", {cha'leS po}
"the morning of the day after tomorrow" (literally "two-days-
from-now morning"), and so on work quite nicely. [st.k 6/97]
Another [animal which is particularly noisy at dawn], though
not a bird, is the {Qa'}, specifically the {jajlo' Qa'} ("dawn
{Qa'}")... Maltz said he has also heard the phrase {po Ha'DIbaH,}
literally "morning animal", used to refer to the {'uSgheb}. He
thinks {po Ha'DIbaH} has some sort of literary source, since it
is used in operas and plays but not often in everyday speech.
Maltz supposed that {po Ha'DIbaH} could refer to a {jajlo' Qa'}
as well. [HolQeD 10.4]
{po} was used for "a.m." on Paramount's Star Trek Klingon digital watch.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons