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Re: Klingon WOTD: DuH (n)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: DuH (n)
• Date: Wed, 05 Sep 2001 16:20:15 -0500
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

: Klingon word:   DuH
: Part of Speech: noun
: Definition:     possibility, option


As used in canon:

  Hoch DuH yIqel
  Consider every possibility! KGT

Cp. the Klingon idiom {Hoch nuH qel} "consider every weapon", also meaning
"consider every possibility/option" (KGT p.108)

Related nouns include {wIv} "choice" and {'eb} "opportunity, chance, opening".

Also note the homophonous verb {DuH} "be possible" and its synonym {qIt}, as
well as the verb suffix {-laH} "can, able".

  yIntaHvIS qIrq DuHbe' roj
  There will be no peace as long as Kirk lives. (MO ST5 notes)



-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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