tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Apr 15 07:58:23 2008
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Re: Klingon WOTD: jav (number)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, April 15, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: jav
>Part of Speech: number
>Definition: six
Used in canon:
He pagh-pagh-vagh-jav-pagh-jav yInab
Plot course 0.0.5.6.0.6. (ST5 notes)
jav Hogh maH Qo'noSvo'
We am... Six weeks out of Kronos. (sic!) ST6
jav pu'HIchmey tIn
six big phasers CK
HovpoH Hut vagh cha' wa' vI' jav Dujvam 'aghlu'pu' 'ach Qaw'lu'pu'
[This ship was demonstrated on Stardate 9521.6 but it was destroyed.] S33
jav 'ujmey 'ab SuvwI'
the warrior has a length of six ujs
the warrior stands six ujs
the warrior is six ujs tall (st.klingon 10/22/97)
loSmaH jav vI' Soch loS 'uj 'ab meH
Bridge Height: 16.28 M. (KBoP)
qughtaHvIS toQDuj HutmaH vI' jav wa' 'uj 'ab 'oH
Cruise Formation Height: 31.56 M. (KBoP)
SaqtaHvIS toQDuj wa'vatlh loS vI' jav chorgh 'uj 'ab 'oH
Landing Formation Height: 36.46 M. (KBoP)
muDDaq 'eDSeHcha lulaQlu'bogh: jav
Atmospheric Take-Off/Landing Thrusters ? 6 (KBoP)
>Homonyms:
> jav (noun) - sixth tone of nonatonic scale
Never used in canon.
KGT 73: The independent words for the numbers three through nine were not
originally a part of the Klingon counting system, but they had to come from
somewhere. The musical scale is the likely source. The word for the fourth
musical tone, {loS}, began to be used for the number four, and so on
through the eighth tone, {chorgh}.
> jav (noun) - prisoner (slang)
Used in canon:
jav luHpu' 'avwI'
The guard has caused a prisoner to confess.
("The guard has 'yanked a six'.") KGT
KGT 153: The origin of this slang usage of {jav} (literally, "six") is
unknown. The usual word for "prisoner" is {qama'} ... This verb [{luH}]
literally means "yank" and is used in such sentences as {jav luHpu' 'avwI'}
("The guard has caused a prisoner to confess"--literally, "The guard has
yanked a six"). Standard words expressing the same notions are {DISmoH}
("cause to confess") and {peghHa'moH} ("cause to not keep a secret").
Pun:
Patrick McGoohan played Number Six in the cult TV show "The Prisoner".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons