tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jan 29 10:24:46 2001
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Re: Klingon WOTD: leSSov (n)
> Klingon word: leSSov
> Part of Speech: noun
> Definition: forsight
Usually spelled "foresight".
{leSSov} is not attested in canon.
quljIb:
: *groan* This must be the worst pun I've ever seen.
nuqjatlh? I don't see it. The word for "four" is {loS} not {leS}, which is a
bound morpheme meaning "days from now" - e.g. {wa'leS} tomorrow, {cha'leS day}
after tomorrow, etc. - plus {Sov} "knowledge". Thus {leSSov} is
"fore-knowledge" or "knowledge from now" (i.e. from the future).
I'm obviously missing something, which wouldn't be the first time!
BTW: although it's non-canonical, many people have independently coined the
obvious counterpart *{Hu'Sov} "hindsight", not that you would use either very
often.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons