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Re: Klingon WOTD: Qay'wI' (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Qay'wI' (noun)
• Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2006 09:57:40 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, April 14, 2006.
>
>Category: Body Parts
>
>Klingon word:   Qay'wI'
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     little toe

Derived noun from the verb {Qay'} "use the little toe":

   rav Qay'
   touch the floor with the little toe (HQ 10.2)

Possible pun:  Cf. the nursery rhyme ending "and this little piggy cried 
'Wee, wee, wee' all the way home".  {Qay'wI'} = "cried wee"?  <g>

>Additional Notes:
>HolQeD 10:2, p. 7, "A Friend of Maltz: {nItlhDu' yaDDu' je}.

    ... the phonetic identity of {Qay'} "use the little toe"
    and {Qay'} "blow one's top, lose one's temper" is probably
    not accidental, as evidenced by the idiomatic expression
    {'oy'qu' Qay'wI'wIj}, literally "my little toe aches a lot",
    which means "I'm *extremely* angry").        (HQ 10.2:11)



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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