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Re: Klingon WOTD: jat (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: jat (noun)
• Date: Mon, 28 Aug 2006 10:26:03 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, August 27, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   jat
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     tongue

Never used in canon.

Related nouns:  {nuj} mouth; {lev} roof of mouth

>Homonyms:
>     jat (verb) - speak incoherently, mumble (slang)

Note that in the city of {ruq'e'vet}, this means "be clumsy":

   To say "be messy, sloppy", the Ruk'evet inhabitants say {Soy'},
   a verb meaning "be clumsy" elsewhere. The Ruk'evet word for
   "be clumsy" is {jat}, which is phonetically identical to the
   noun meaning "tongue."  (KGT 30)




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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