Re: Klingon WOTD: tuH (verb)

[Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>]

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, July 15, 2005.
>
>Klingon word:   tuH
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     be ashamed

   bItuHpa' bIHeghjaj
   Death before shame.
   ("May you die before you are shamed.") PK

   Dujeychugh jagh nIv yItuHQo'
   There is nothing shameful in falling before a superior enemy.
   ("If a superior enemy defeats you, don't be ashamed"). TKW

   bItuHlaHbe'chugh bIquvlaHbe'
   If you cannot be shamed, you cannot be honored. TKW

   bItuH
   You are ashamed. (ST Continuum's KLS)

Cf. {web} "be disgraced".

Antonym {Hem} "be proud".

See the verb {tuHmoH} "shame [someone]" and the homophonous noun {tuH} 
"shame".


>Homonyms:
>     tuH (noun) - maneuver (military term)

   tojbogh pa' tuHmey
   Holodeck Adventures (STC Klingon issue)

   The noun {tuH} refers to a military maneuver of any kind. A
   specific plan or stratagem usually has a code name ({per yuD}
   [literally, "dishonest label"]) coined especially for the
   occasion and not necessarily used again.  (KGT 48)




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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons