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Re: Klingon WOTD: tor (v)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: tor (v)
• Date: Tue, 06 Mar 2001 09:30:03 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

: Klingon word:   tor
: Part of Speech: verb
: Definition:     kneel

As used in canon:

  QamvIS Hegh qaq law' torvIS yIn qaq puS!
  Better to die on our feet than live on our knees. ST6 
  ("Dying while standing is preferable to living while kneeling.") TKW

Okrand explains the unusual grammar:

  "The grammatical construction is a bit aberrant; one would expect
   {QamtaHvIS} and {tortaHvIS}. In proverbs, grammatical shortcuts
   are not uncommon."  (TKW p.95)

The noun is {qIv} "knee".  

Related verbs: {joD} "stoop" and {SIH} "bend"; {Qam} "stand" and {Hu'} "get
up".




-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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