tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Apr 04 07:48:17 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: 'Iv
> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, April 04, 2014
>
> Klingon word: 'Iv
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: altitude
> Source: TKD (116 KE, 120 EK)
AFAIK never used in a Klingon sentence.
Do not confuse with the question word {'Iv} "who?".
Qov, our resident {'orwI'}, comments:
Altitude is how high the airplane is, the Klingon word is {'Iv},
and in English you are "at an altitude".
HQ 11.2: When the plane moves up or down (not when the nose points up or down, but when the plane increases or decreases altitude, as if the whole plane is being pushed up or down), it is said to {jIm} "heave".
Useful words:
*{'Iv juvwI'} altimeter (n) (coined by Qov)
Sal ascend (v)
toS climb (v)
ghIr descend (v)
pum fall, fall down, fall off of something (v)
So far, {Sal} and {ghIr} have only been used WRT mountains:
SaqSub'e' muSHa'bogh pawmeH leng qeylIS HuDmey Sal ghIq ghIr
And Kahless traveled to his beloved Saq'sub, over the mountains PB
HuDmeyvo' ghIr chaH
Over the hills, they came. PB
QIStaq 'emDaq jenchoH jul, yor DungDaq Salta'DI' tagh
HarghchuqmeH poH
The sun rises high behind the Kri'stak, when it rises over
its top, it is time to do battle. PB
Which reminds me of the clever 1995 movie "The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain" - {HuD Salta'bogh 'ach HuDna' ghIrta'bogh 'engpuHngan'e'}? - featuring Colm Meaney (a.k.a. Chief Miles O'Brien from TNG/DS9). (The plot revolves about whether the local {HuD} measures the required 1000 feet in height to qualify as a mountain for the Geological Survey of the United Kingdom.)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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