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Re: Klingon WOTD: 'op (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: 'op (noun)
• Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 10:36:08 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, May 18, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   'op
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     some, an unknown or unspecified quantity

   'ej DujvamDaq 'op SuvwI' tu'lu'bogh po' law' tlhIngan yo' SuvwI' law' 
po' puS
   It [IKC Pagh] has... some of the finest warriors in the Klingon fleet. S7

Cf. the quality {puS} "be few".

Note the related noun {HochHom} "most, greater part" used similarly:

   ... qItI'nga' Duj. tera' vatlh DIS poH cha'maH wej HochHom lo'lu'taH
   [The] K'Tinga-class remained in use for most of the 23rd century. S15

Cf. the qualities {law'} "be many" and {'Iq} "be too many, be too much" as 
well as the adverbial {tlhoy} "overly, to an excessive degree, excessively, 
too much".



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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