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Re: Klingon WOTD: pIH (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: pIH (v)
• Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:42:20 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, August 23, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   pIH
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     be suspicious

As used in canon:

   jIpIH
   I am suspicious. KLS

Cp. the idiom {qagh Sopbe'} "He doesn't eat gagh!":

   Everyone loves gagh, so if one is not eating it, something must be
   wrong. This expression is used to mean that there is something wrong
   with someone or that someone is acting suspiciously... For Klingons
   ...this is a rather mild dismissive remark, not a strong insult."
   (TKW 137)

Cf. also {nub} "be suspect", {-law'} and {voqHa'} "distrust".

Be careful not to confuse this intransitive quality with the transitive 
verb {pIH} "expect".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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