tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Sep 26 11:39:07 2001
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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghor (v)
- From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ghor (v)
- Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2001 11:29:20 -0500
: Klingon word: ghor
: Part of Speech: verb
: Definition: break
Similar verbs include {QIH} "damage, cause damage", {Qotlh} "disable", {Qaw'}
"destroy", {pej} "demolish" and {Sang} "obliterate".
Cf. also {bIv} "break (rules)" & {lay'Ha'} "break one's word".
: TKW page 185:
: pIpyuS pach DaSop DaneHchugh pIpyuS puS DaghornIS.
: If you want to eat pipius claw, you'll have to break a few pipiuses.
From TKW (idem.) we learn that {pIpyuS yIghor} "Break a pipius!" is by itself
"a command to tell someone, often a child, to get started on or to devote more
effort to a project."
: KGT page 124
: pel'aQDaj ghorpa'
: Literally: before it breaks its shell
: Idiomatically: before it's too late, while there's still time
An example of this idiom in context:
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