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Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhuH (noun)
- From: naHQun <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhuH (noun)
- Date: Fri, 6 Oct 2006 01:29:25 -0500
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It doesn't look like anyone else replied to this one, so I'll add my two
cents.
>Klingon word: tlhuH
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: breath
>Source: TKD (111 KE, 122 EK)
>Swedish: andedräkt, andhämtning
Never used in canon, as far as I have noted.
>Homonyms:
> tlhuH (verb) - breathe
Suvbe'chugh SuvwI' tlhuHbe' SuvwI'. If a warrior does not fight, he does not
breathe.~I don't have the source in my notes, sorry.
> tlhuH (verb) - be exhilarated, >stimulated, invigorated
I have this labeled as slang.
This word is used in such expressions as {jItlhuH} ("I am exhilarated, it's
exhilarating to me"; literally, "I breathe"). Perhaps a near equivalent in
standard Klingon is {Sey} ("be excited").* *KGT Klingons have always
considered it truly invigorating to face danger. As commander Kruge said to
Captain Kirk while the Genesis planet on which they were stranded was
quickly falling apart, "Exhilarating, isn't it?" TKW 73; ST3
~naHQun
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