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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: cho'

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



> Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, February 01, 2014
> 
> Klingon word: cho'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: succession

cho' 'oDwI'  "Arbiter of Succession" (n):

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

Cf. the homophonous verb {cho'} "succeed (to authority)":

  maQ 'oH HemHa'choH 'ej cho'choH moratlh 
  The signal for Morath to lose his pride and claim a throne. PB

Related vocabulary:

gheS 		assume duties of, take on responsibilities (v)
Sugh 		install [in office] (v)
moj 		become(v)

Son 		relieve(v)
lu 		fall from power (v)
Deq 		be erstwhile, former, prior, ex- (v)

Da 		behave as, act in the manner of (v)
ngoy' 	be responsible (v)

woQ  		authority, political power (n)
ngup  	authority, power, one in authority, one in charge (slang)
nubwI' 	predecessor (n)

[N.B.  WRT {nubwI'} the only known verb {nub} means "be suspect".  Some have speculated that Okrand may have mis-remembered {nung} "precede".]


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



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