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Re: Klingon WOTD: QIm (n)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: QIm (n)
• Date: Tue, 20 Feb 2001 09:34:04 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

: Klingon word:     QIm
: Part of Speech:   noun
: Definition:       egg
: Additional Notes: KGT. See also {pel'aQ}.

Okrand on eggs:

  "Curiously, eggs (QImmey) do not play a large role in the Klingon
   diet as food items in their own right, though they are mixed into
   many sauces, usually along with the pieces of shell (pel'aQ), for
   flavor and texture. The small eggs of the Tokvirian skink (toqvIr
   lung), however, are often eaten whole, shell and all, usually by
   the handful." (KGT 88)

and eggshells:

  "The shell of an animal ({nagh DIr}--literally, 'rock skin'--not to
   be confused with {yub} [husk, rind, peel], the word applied to the
   shell of a nut, or {pel'aQ} [eggshell] is commonly separated from
   the animal meat, fermented, and served at another time." (KGT 92)

Although {QIm} doesn't appear in a sentence, {pel'aQ} does:

   pel'aQDaj ghorpa'
   before it breaks its shell
   (idiom: "before it's too late" or "while there's still time") KGT

   pel'aQDaj ghorpa' qama' yIHoH
   Before it breaks its shell, kill the prisoner.
   (i.e. "Kill the prisoner now, while you've got a chance.") KGT



-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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