tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Feb 03 12:38:45 2004
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Re: Klingon WOTD: DIng (v)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, February 1, 2004.
>
>Klingon word: DIng
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: spin
Never used in canon.
Cf. also {jIr} "rotate, twirl", {bav} "orbit" and {tlhe'} "turn".
My suspicion is that all these verbs work like {jIr} - that is, the stem is
intransitive and the stem plus {-moH} is transitive (cf. {jIrmoH} "twirl
bat'leth, cause bat'leth to rotate" [KGT 60]). As it happens, neither
{bav} nor {tlhe'} have been used in canon so this remains speculation.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons