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Re: Klingon WOTD: teq (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: teq (verb)
• Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2007 10:29:19 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, August 16, 2007.
>
>Klingon word:   teq
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     remove, take off

Never used in canon.

Related verbs:

{tuQHa'moH} "undress, take off (clothes)"

Cf. also {jotlh} "take down"; {lel} "get out, take out"); {nge'} "take away"

Antonyms include tuQmoH  dress, (put on [clothes]) and {chel} "add".

Based purely on the English glosses, I'd use {teq} for removing something 
from off the surface of something else:

   ?raSvo' DeSqIvlIj tIteq
    Take your elbows off the table!

and {lel} for removing something from out of something else:

   ?vaHvo' nISwI'lIj yIlel 'ej ghIq ravDaq yIchagh
   Take your disruptor out of the holster and then drop it on the floor!

I'd use {tuQHa'moH} for removing clothing (all of it or a specific item) 
and {teq} for, say, removing one's rank insignia or communicator from one's 
uniform (e.g. prior to having it cleaned).



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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