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Re: Klingon WOTD: neb (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: neb (noun)
• Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2005 09:50:58 -0600
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, December 19, 2005.
>
>Category: Animals
>
>Klingon word:   neb
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     beak, bill
>Source: HQ (10:4 p5)

Never used in a Klingon sentence.

Okrand wrote in KGT (p.56):

   The warhead of the torpedo is called its {jorneb} (which
   seems to contain the verb {jor} ["explode"] but is otherwise
   not analyzable).

As HolQeD 10:4 appeared after KGT, we can probably ignore that last 
statement.  That a warhead is seen metaphorically as the exploding 
beak/bill of a missile makes sense.  In English some types of cruise 
missiles have small wings in the middle of the body like a bird.



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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