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Re: Klingon WOTD: waw' (n)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: waw' (n)
• Date: Wed, 03 Jan 2001 09:33:32 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

: Klingon word:   waw'
: Part of Speech: noun
: Definition:     military base

I believe {waw'} was actually glossed slightly different in TKD as "base
(military term)".  

As used in canon:

  pa' 'oHtaH vaS'a''e'.  tlhIngan qum waw' 'oH. 
  This is where the Klingon Great Hall is located, the center of
  the Klingon government. (SkyBox S27)

Okrand here seems to have broadened the definition a bit.  (OTOH he may view
The First City, or at least the Great Hall, as one large military base!)  

Related vocabulary includes {'ejyo'waw'} "starbase" and {raQ} "camp (military
term)".



-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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