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Re: Klingon WOTD: pum (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: pum (v)
• Date: Fri, 13 Aug 2004 09:59:44 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, August 13, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   pum
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     fall

   ... that is, "fall down" or "fall off of something"
   [st.klingon 11/05/1999]

As used in canon:

   bIpum
   You fall. (STC:KLS)

   Dubotchugh yIpummoH
   If it's in your way, knock it down. (TKW)

There's an idiomatic expression {pumDI' (X)} "by then, by that time" 
(literally "when [the X] falls") which Okrand explained on st.klingon 
(11/05/1999).  Some, but not all, variants include:

   pumDI' 'etlh
   "when the blade falls" [the most common]

   pumDI' DaS
   "when the boot falls"

   pumDI' 'obmaQ
   "when the ax falls"

   pumDI' nagh
   "when the stone falls"

   pumDI' rutlh
   "when the wheel falls"

In context, this would be:

   tagha' pawpu' meb 'ach pumDI' Heghpu' qagh
   tagha' pawpu' meb 'ach pumDI' 'etlh Heghpu' qagh
   "The guest finally arrived, but by then the gagh had died."

Cf. also {chagh} "drop", {ghIr} "descend" and {lu} "fall (suffer loss of 
status), fall from power".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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