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

Will Martin ([email protected]) [KLI Member] [Hol po'wI']



I would expect that arming it is a separate step from being prepared to launch it.

Perhaps:

jornub yIjorbeHmoH!

> On Jul 6, 2015, at 10:17 AM, Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
> 
>> Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, July 06, 2015
>> 
>> Klingon word: jornub
>> Part of speech: noun
>> Definition: warhead (of a torpedo)
>> Source: KGT:K-E
> 
> Spelled {jorneb} in the KGT text (p. 57) and the E-K section of the KGT glossary, but {jornub} in the K-E glossary.
> 
> KGT 56:  The warhead of the torpedo is called its {jorneb} (which seems to contain the verb {jor} ["explode"] but is otherwise not analyzable).
> 
> Qes (6/27/07):  In HolQeD 10:4, pp. 4-5, where we are given vocabulary connected with birds, we are given the noun {neb} "beak, bill of a bird"; I find the idea of a torpedo or missile as a bird of prey diving at its target beak-first to be a rather apposite metaphor.
> 
> TREK TRIVIA:
> 
> The Ekosians fired an unmanned reaction-powered probe with a thermonuclear warhead at the Enterprise. (TOS "Patterns of Force")
> 
> A malfunctioning suborbital U.S. thermonuclear warhead was exploded 104 miles above Earth's Eurasian land mass in 1968. (TOS "Assignment: Earth")
> 
> Use {ghuS} "be prepared to launch or project (something)" for "arm" a warhead?
> 
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