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Re: Klingon WOTD: yach (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: yach (v)
• Date: Mon, 23 Aug 2004 15:50:59 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, August 21, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   yach
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     pet, stroke

Never used in canon, but discussed in KGT:

   Each string is a {SIrgh}, a word also used for any thread or filament...
   To produce music, one may either pluck ({pang}) or strum ({yach}, which
   also means "stroke" or "pet") the strings. The tone produced is varied
   by touching the string or strings at various points while plucking or
   strumming. The verb used for this, perhaps translatable as "to finger",
   is the same as the one used for wind instruments: {Heng}.  (KGT 76)

Cf. also {chu'} play (an instrument)".

BTW, the noun for "pet [animal]" is {Saj}.



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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