tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Jun 20 07:43:01 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: lagh (verb)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, June 20, 2006.
>
>Klingon word: lagh
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: take apart, disassemble
Never used in canon.
Related verbs:
{QIH} (cause) damage; {chenHa'moH} destroy (something); {ghor} break; {pej}
demolish; {Sang} obliterate; {Qaw'} destroy; {Qotlh} disable; {chu'Ha'}
deactivate; {nIS} disrupt
The difference between {chenHa'moH} and {Qaw'} - both glossed "destroy" -
is not clear.
{chenHa'moH} in canon:
chenHa'moHlaH
It can destroy them ("It can cause them to undo their form"). TKD
{Qaw'} in canon:
nuQaw'laH
He can destroy us. TKS
Qaw''eghpu'
He destroyed himself. TKD
nuQaw'qu'be'
They have not finished us off. TKD
not Soj QaQ Qaw' tlhInganpu'
Klingons never destroy good food. CK
noH QapmeH wo' Qaw'lu'chugh yay chavbe'lu'
"Destroying an empire to win a war is no victory" TKW
SuyDuj DaQaw'chugh qagh DaHoH
If you destroy the merchant ship, you kill gagh.
(i.e. "destroying the merchant ship is contrary [or, counterproductive]
to the best interests of the current mission") KGT
romuluSnganpu' Dujmey DIQaw'pu'; pe'vIl DIbI'chu'pu'
We destroyed the Romulans' ships all at once. KGT
HovpoH Hut vagh cha' wa' vI' jav Dujvam 'aghlu'pu' 'ach Qaw'lu'pu'
[This ship was demonstrated on Stardate 9521.6 but it was destroyed.]
S33 (untranslated)
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons