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Re: Klingon WOTD: woj (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: woj (noun)
• Date: Wed, 05 Jul 2006 09:43:00 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, July 5, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   woj
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     radiation

Used in canon:

   janmey ngo' lulo'lu'DI' pIj jabbI'ID nISpu' woj
   Older models were susceptible to radiation.  (S19)

Cf. {woj choHwI'} "reactor" (lit. "thing which alters radiation").

On the IKV Somraw, the engine room was called the "reactor pit" (ENT 
"Sleeping Dogs").

Related verbs include {tlhuD} "emit (energy, radiation)":

   chIch vay' 'oy'moHmeH 'oy'naQ 'ul law' tlhuD 'oH
   Painstiks... emit a highly-charged shock for the express purpose
   of inflicting pain.  (S32)

Related nouns include {tIH} "ray, energy beam" and {HoS} "energy".




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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