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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghuS (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ghuS (v)
• Date: Tue, 11 Nov 2003 11:23:26 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, November 9, 2003.
>
>Klingon word:   ghuS
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     lower (spear) to attack
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 64.  The thrower first lowers the spear to a horizontal position 
>({ghuS}), then hurls it with great force ({chuH}).

KGT on {ghuS}:

   Some spears are simply thrust into an oncoming enemy. Others
   are generally thrown. The thrower first lowers the spear to a
   horizontal position (the verb describing this action is {ghuS}),
   then hurls it with great force ("throw" or "hurl" in this
   manner is {chuH}).  (KGT 64)

   It may have been noticed that some of the terminology associated
   with spears is identical to that associated with modern weaponry,
   and certainly the vocabulary of spear-throwing was adapted for the
   newer technology ... The verb {ghuS} means both "lower (a spear)
   to a horizontal position in preparation for throwing" and "prepare
   to launch (a torpedo)". (KGT 65)

Cf. also {nech} "be lateral, move laterally" as well as {SaS} "be 
horizontal" and {chong} "be vertical .



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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