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Re: Klingon WOTD: wuq (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: wuq (verb)
• Date: Wed, 10 May 2006 09:34:27 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, May 10, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   wuq
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     decide, decide upon

As used in canon:

   to'waQ yIyIvQo'; DaH yIwuq!
   Don't chew ligament; decide now! KGT

   ngoch luchermeH 'ej wo' San luwuqmeH pa' ghom tlhIngan yejquv
    DevwI'pu'
   where the leaders of the Klingon High Council meet to determine
    policy and decide upon the fate of the Empire. S25

   yejquv DevwI' moj ghawran 'e' wuqta' cho' 'oDwI' Dapu'bogh
    janluq pIqarD HoD
   Gowron... named leader of the High Council by Captain Jean-Luc
   Picard, who was acting as Arbiter of Succession. S25

Cf. {loy} guess; {noH} judge, estimate, {'oD} arbitrate, mediate.

Note {wuqHa'} "commute":

   vImuHlu' net wuqHa'
   My death sentence was commuted! (ENT "Affliction")

Cf. {qIl} cancel



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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