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Re: Klingon WOTD: Qum (v)

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, September 17, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   Qum
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     communicate

As used in canon:

  jIQum
  I communicate. (STC:KLS)

  naDev bIQumqa' 'e' vItul.
  [untranslated] (st.klingon 11/1996)

Discussed in KGT:

   The word {pIn} is also found in nonslang terms referring to crew members
   on a ship: {QeDpIn} (science officer), {QumpIn} (communications officer).
   ... Note that for the crew terms, in one case pIn follows a noun ({QeD},
   "science" thus, {QeDpIn} is "science boss"), but in the other, it follows
   what is found elsewhere only as a verb ({Qum}, "communicate"), suggesting
   that there may have been a noun {Qum} ("communication") at some point in
   the past. (KGT 158-59)

... as well as the "present".  The noun {Qum} appears three times on the 
BOP Poster:

   {Qum De'wI'}  "communications computer"

   {Qum patmey}  "communications systems"

   {Qum SeHlaw}  "communications console"

Related verbs include {rI'} "hail", {van} "salute" and {qel} "take into 
account, consider".  {lab} and {lI'} are sometimes used on this List for 
posting (uploading) and receiving (downloading) email and attachments.

Useful communications-related nouns include {rI'Se'} "hailing frequency 
(comm channel??)", {Se'} "frequency", {'evnagh Se'} "subspace radio" and 
{chaDvay'} "radio frequency, Hertz".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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