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Re: Klingon WOTD: qIQ (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: qIQ (verb)
• Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2006 09:26:31 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, November 14, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   qIQ
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     mutiny

Never used in canon.

Related idioms:

   Someone unsatisfied with the status quo, a rebel, might be said
   to want to {ngup qaD} ("challenge those in charge"; literally,
   "challenge the cape").  (KGT 157)

Related verbs:

{Daw'} "revolt", {lotlh} "rebel" and {HeS} "commit a crime".

The derived nouns {HeSwI'} "criminal" and {lotlhwI'} "rebel" are attested.

For the general noun use {Daw'} "revolt, revolution" or {QuD} "insurrection".



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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