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

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, June 26, 2014
> 
> Klingon word: taD
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be frozen

  yItaD 
  Freeze! [i.e. Stand perfectly still!] KCD

  petaD! 
  ["Freeze!" (shouted by Gowron)] (KCD novel)

KGT 117:  These are idiomatic ways to give the command "Don't move!"  The word {yItaD} is used when speaking to an individual; {petaD} is used when giving the command to a group.  The verb {taD} means "be frozen", and it is used here in a peculiar, though not really ungrammatical, way.  Generally, when a verb describing a state of being (for example, {tuj} ["be hot"]) is used in the imperative form, the suffixes {-'egh} (reflexive suffix) and {-moH} (cause) are used as well:  {yItuj'eghmoH} ("Heat yourself!" - that is, "Cause yourself to be hot!"), {yItaD'eghmoH!} ("Freeze yourself!" - that is, "Cause yourself to be frozen!").  When {taD} is used in the idiomatic sense of "not move", however, it is treated as if a verb describing an activity, such as {yIt} (walk):  {yIyIt!} ("Walk!").

TKW 190:  Rura Penthe is a frozen asteroid used by Klingons as a penal colony for enemies of the Empire...

Similar words:

taDmoH  	freeze (v)
bIr 		be cold (v)
peD 		snow (v)
tet 		melt (v)

chuch 	ice (n)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



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