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Re: Klingon WOTD: luH (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: luH (verb)
• Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 10:13:24 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, June 22, 2005.
>
>Klingon word:   luH
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     yank
>
>Additional Notes:
>Missing from EK side of TKD.

I've seen *{luHHa'} used for "shove".

There's no word for the less energetic "pull", but we do have the opposite 
{yuv} "push" -- so, *{yuvHa'}?

>Homonyms:
>     luH (verb) - cause (someone) to confess or reveal a secret (slang)

   This verb literally means "yank" and is used in such sentences as
   {jav luHpu' 'avwI'} ("The guard has caused a prisoner to confess"
   --literally, "The guard has yanked a six"). Standard words expres-
   sing the same notions are {DISmoH} ("cause to confess") and {peghHa'-
   moH} ("cause to not keep a secret").  (KGT 153)

Cf. also {yu'} "interrogate, question".

>     luH (noun) - intestine

Cf. also {chor} "belly" and {burgh} "stomach".



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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