tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Oct 04 07:19:49 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: chach (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, October 4, 2006.
>
>Klingon word: chach
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: emergency
>
>Additional Notes:
>Auxiliary, backup. Originally from {veS Qo'noS}, printed in HolQeD 1:3 p9.
Do we know this is a noun? (Is it listed and labeled in KGT?) Could it be
a quality? Or a homophonous noun/verb pair?
Two unverified examples from canon:
chach!
[Emergency!] ST6 (untranslated)
tlham chach chu'qa'
Restoring auxiliary gravity. ST6 (clipped?)
If I heard this correctly, {chach} appears to be acting as a quality here:
"backup/auxiliary gravity". If it's a noun, I would expect the noun+noun
phrase ?{chach tlham} "emergency gravity".
Related noun: ghuH "alert"
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons