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Re: Klingon WOTD: poH (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, November 15, 2005.
>
>Klingon word:   poH
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     time

Never used in canon.

>Homonyms:
>     poH (noun) - period of time

   poH nI'
   a long time (KGT 121)

{poH} as an element in the nouns {HovpoH} "Stardate", {leSpoH} "shore 
leave", {nIbpoH} "deja vu" and in the noun phrases {puq poH} "generation", 
{vatlh DIS poH} "century", {netlh DIS poH} "myriad, a period of 10,000 years".

Note the related time nouns {pIq} "period of time from now" and {ret} 
"period of time ago".  These words follow more specific time units.  For 
example:

   cha' tup pIq
   two minutes from now

   cha' tup ret
   two minutes ago

See Okrand's explanation in HolQeD 8.3 for more details.



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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