tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Dec 12 08:14:08 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: Saj (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, December 12, 2006.
>
>Category: Animals
>
>Klingon word: Saj
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: pet
Never used in canon.
Cultural notes:
"It is entirely inappropriate for an adult or even an older child to use
{puq Hol} except when speaking to a baby, though it is occasionally used
when speaking to pets." (KGT 34)
"[-oy] is usually used ... for other people or animals for which a child
feels some fondness ({targhoy}, 'targy,' perhaps, for a pet targ)." (KGT 33)
Klingons use Clipped Klingon {tlhIngan Hol poD} when commanding their
pets. See the following examples in "Power Klingon":
ba'
Sit!
Qam
Stand!
naDev ghoS
Come here!
Sop
Eat!
Sop 'e' mev
Stop eating!
HIv
Attack!
'uSDaj chop! chev!
Bite his/her leg off!
DeSvetlh yIv
Chew that arm!
mev
Do not do that!
Ha'DIbaH qab
Bad animal!
qab
Bad!
QuchwIj roSQo'
Do not lick my forehead!
naDev Dochvetlh qem
Bring that here!
naDev Dochvetlh qemqu'
I really mean it this time! Bring that here!
jol SeHlaw lItHa'
Get off that transporter control panel!
Related verbs:
{yach} "pet, stroke"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons