tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 06 07:21:14 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: bo'DIj (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, June 4, 2005.
>
>Klingon word: bo'DIj
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: court
>Source: TKD (81 KE, 126 EK)
Never used in canon. Presumably this is a court of law (cf. {ghIpDIj}
"court martial"), not a courtyard or an emperor's royal court.
For other legal nouns see {meqba'} "type of legal proceeding" (i.e. that
portion of a Klingon trial or appeal in which evidence is heard [cf. TNG
"Sins of the Father"]), {ruv} "justice", {teblaw'} "jurisdiction" and {yoj}
"judgment". Some useful verbs are {noH} "judge/estimate" and {'oD}
"arbitrate, mediate".
For the presiding official we only have {'oDwI'} "arbitrator, arbiter" and
*{loHwI'} "magistrate" (lit. "administrator" - used in the recent Klingon
Augment episode on ENTERPRISE; if you recall, a magistrate presided over
Archer's trial on Narendra III (?) for conspiring against the Klingon
Empire and fomenting revolt in the earlier episode "Judgment").
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons