tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jan 18 09:29:35 2006
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Re: cha yIghuS
Quvar:
> >Even though maybe MO did not explicitly confirm it - would you
> >accept/understand {ghuS} for loading a weapon, like a gun?
Voragh:
>We know that Klingons have gunpowder {ngat}:
>
> The name of the granulated cartilage is {ngat}, which has
> also come to mean "gunpowder". (KGT 90)
Some more vocabulary: {HIch} "handgun, gun, pistol" and {beH}
"rifle". Only refers to disruptors in KGT, but there's no reason to
believe they can't be used for more primitive firearms.
> >I first thought of {chu'}, but the {chu'wI'} activates i.e. shoots the gun.
>
>{baH} "fire (torpedo, rocket, missile), launch" (v.)
>
>{bach} "shoot" (v.)
>{bach} "shot" (n.)
N.B. Klingons also (Sen) "use the thumb" (v.) when firing some weapons
(i.e. they thumb the firing button):
nISwI' HIch Sen
fire the disruptor pistol (HQ 10.2)
This is literally "use the thumb in the way it's most appropriately used on
a disruptor pistol", "use the thumb to activate the disruptor pistol",
"thumb the disruptor pistol". If the gun has a Terran-style trigger, you
could use {SIq} "use the index finger". See HolQeD 10.2:8 for more details
on using the finger verbs.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons