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Re: Klingon WOTD: loS (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: loS (verb)
• Date: Tue, 20 Nov 2007 09:49:43 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, November 20, 2007.
>
>Klingon word:   loS
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     wait (for)

Used in canon:

   loS... qIb HeHDaq
   It waits... on the edge of the galaxy (DS99)

   DaH maloS.  peghItlh!
   [untranslated (st.klingon (August 1996)]

Used in Trek:

   jIbechrup may' vIloS
   I am ready to suffer battle. I wait for them. (TNG "The Icarus Factor")
   [lit. "I am ready to suffer. I wait for battle."]

Related verbs:

{pIH} "expect", , {ratlh} "remain";  {mIm} "delay", {lum} "postpone, 
procrastinate".

Cf. also {chergh} "tolerate" and {tuv} "be patient".



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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