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Re: Klingon WOTD: yoD (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: yoD (n)
• Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2004 10:39:19 -0500
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, September 30, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   yoD
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     shield
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 67.  Basically a large plate of metal.


"As protection against these various weapons, a warrior often carried a 
shield, or {yoD}, basically a large plate of metal. The verb form of 
'shield' is also {yoD}, and to 'shield oneself' is {yoD'egh}. (Although the 
Federation Standard word 'shields' refers to both the old hand-held 
protective armor, and the force field protecting a vessel--the newer 
meaning clearly based on the older--in Klingon, there is no connection 
between the two. The force field on a ship is called {botjan}. To shield a 
ship, one must 'activate the shields', or {botjan chu'}.)" (KGT 67)

"The Klingon word {botjan} refers to shields or protective force-fields on 
a ship. The hand-held shield associated with traditional hand-to-hand 
combat is called {yoD}." (KCD)

The {ghab'etlh} is a "gutting device, used in balance with a shield when 
practicing the Klingon warrior fighting style of <qIjatlh>" (KCD, 
transcription of last word uncertain)



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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