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Re: Klingon WOTD: 'oDwI' (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: 'oDwI' (noun)
• Date: Tue, 04 Sep 2007 13:52:21 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, September 1, 2007.
>
>Category: People
>
>Klingon word:   'oDwI'
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     arbitrator

The nomen agentis if {'oD} "'oD  arbitrate, mediate".

Used in canon:

   yejquv DevwI' moj ghawran 'e' wuqta' cho' 'oDwI' Dapu'bogh janluq pIqarD 
HoD.
   Gowron... named leader of the High Council by Captain Jean-Luc Picard, who
   was acting as Arbiter of Succession. S25

Related nouns:

For a judge or magistrate (like the one seen in ST6) use {loHwI'}:

   loHwI' vISuch 'e' vIpoQ!
   I demand to see the magistrate! (ENT "Affliction")



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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