tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 07 19:15:53 2004
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Re: muv
Voragh:
> Another verb to consider is {muv} "join (physically)", which can refer to
> (physically) joining a group:
lay'tel SIvten:
> > Where does the "physically" in your gloss come from?
Voragh:
> I have {muv} "join (physically)" in my notes without annotation, so I
> assume I took it from TKD. Unless someone check right now, I'll have to
> check the Klingon-English and English-Klingon entries when I get home.
Well, I checked TKD and lay'tel is right: the gloss reads simply {muv}
"join". I have no idea how the qualifier "physically" got added to my
notes, but I've now deleted it. Perhaps it was to distinguish "join" from
"join in" (i.e. "participate" {jeS}). It's also possible someone misquoted
it on the List and I carelessly added the note without checking it against
my TKD at home.
yIvoq 'ach yI'ol!
> We have one more bit of canon: the noun {muvwI'} "suture" (n.) [HQ 1.3 <
> veS QonoS]. This could be the surgical stitch itself, but more likely in
> Trek a suturing device (Qov calls is a "wound-sealer"). We've seen the
> various doctors use handheld surgical devices to heal wounds: e.g. bone
> knitter, tissue regenerator, etc. With this in mind, I would suggest that
> we could use {muv} for joining smaller simple sentences together to form a
> longer, complex sentence.
I'm now certain this refers to a device since it appeared in HolQeD 1.3 as
{tuj muvwI'} "thermo-suture" - lit. "heat joiner" - with other medical
devices: {'uD Haqtaj} "laser scalpel" and {Hergh QaywI'} "pneumatic hypo,
hypospray".
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Voragh
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