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Re: Klingon WOTD: lo'laH (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: lo'laH (verb)
• Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2008 10:25:08 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, February 10, 2008.
>
>Klingon word:   lo'laH
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     be valuable

   It is a simple verb in its own right (though it's an unusual
   two-syllable one), not the verb {lo'} "use" plus Type 5 suffix
   {-laH} "can". It is likely that there is some sort of historical
   connection to the verb + suffix form, but, if so, it is just
   that -- historical. (Okrand, st.klingon 11/97)]

>Antonyms: lo'laHbe'

"be worthless"

Used in canon:

   vIlo'laHbe'
   They are useless to me. I cannot use them. TKD

   leghlaHchu'be'chugh mIn lo'laHbe' taj jej
   A sharp knife is nothing without a sharp eye. TKW

   lo'laHbe'; chetvI' chIm rur
   worthless as an empty torpedo tube KGT

Related verbs:

   {lI'} be useful;  {wagh} be expensive

   {lI'be'} be useless;  {qutlh} be cheap

Related nouns:

   {lo'laHghach}  "value" [TKD 4.2.9]

   {lo'laHbe'ghach} "worthlessness" [TKD 4.2.9]




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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