tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 15 13:06:30 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: rIQ (verb)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, September 15, 2006.
>
>Klingon word: rIQ
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: be injured
Used in canon:
rIQ qewwI'wIj
my ring finger is injured (HQ 10.2)
N.B. the transitive version is {rIQmoH} "injure":
qewwI'wIj DarIQmoHpu'
you injured my ring finger (HQ 10.2)
Cf. also the verbs {QID} "wound" and {regh} "bleed" and the noun {Sev}
"bandage".
Cultural notes:
"... doctors spend a great deal of their time tending to critically wounded
patients and relatively little time performing routine examinations or
practicing preventive medicine." (KGT 151)
Despite the considerable sophistication of Klingon technology, significant
gaps exist in Klingon medical science, in part due to cultural biases that
injured warriors should be left to die or to carry out the Hegh'bat. (TNG
"Ethics")
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons