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Re: Klingon WOTD: be'nal (n)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: be'nal (n)
• Date: Mon, 19 Feb 2001 10:24:36 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

: Klingon word:   be'nal
: Part of Speech: noun
: Definition:     wife

As used in canon:

  'IH be'nallI'
  Your wife is beautiful. KGT

  'IQ be'nallI'
  Your wife is sad. KGT

A note on usage (KGT p.199):

  The word for "husband" is {loDnal} and that for "wife" is {be'nal}.
  Though there are occasional exceptions, for the most part, neither
  of these words is used in direct address (in a sentence such as
  {loDnal HIghoS} ["Husband, come here"]) and neither of them typically
  takes the suffix of endearment {-oy} (as in {be'naloy} ["wifey"]).




-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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