tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Dec 17 09:09:59 2007
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Re: chagh
At 10:46 AM Monday 12/17/2007, Doq wrote:
>Trying to gain other insights here, I look for Klingon to have verbs
>for "toss" or "throw" to see how they might relate to "drop", and I
>find that Klingon doesn't have any of these verbs. There's {chuH}, but
>that is fairly specific about the object being thrown, and there's
>{jaD} and {woD}, but they are, again, much more specific in their
>meaning than the more generic English "throw". Similarly, {baQ}
>doesn't come close to the generic quality of "toss".
Okrand has discussed on each of these verbs in KGT:
{baQ} "toss bat'leth from one hand to the other"
KGT 60: To twirl or rotate the bat'leth is {jIrmoH} and to toss it from
one hand to the other (the same word is used whether left to right or right
to left) is {baQ}.
{chuH} "throw (a spear) at, hurl (a spear) at, [to] spear [something]"
KGT 64: The verb {chuH}, which is more accurately translated as
"spear"--that is, "hurl a spear at", can be used only if the projectile
being thrown is a spear or somehow resembles a spear. The object of the
verb is the intended target: {jagh chuH SuvwI'} ("The warrior spears the
enemy", or "The warrior throws [a spear] at the enemy").
{woD} "throw away"
{jaD} "throw around, hurl about"
KGT 91: Food that has decayed ({raghpu'bogh Soj}, or more succinctly, {Soj
non}--"rotten food") is food that has become inedible and must be thrown
away, though it is sometimes given to animals. (Note that {Soj woD}
["He/she throws the food away"], which refers to a regrettable activity, is
very different from {Soj jaD} ["He/she throws or hurls the food in the
manner of a projectile"], which, under certain circumstances, is considered
a reasonable pastime.)
Of these, it appears to me as that {jaD} "throw or hurl in the manner of a
projectile" is a pretty good match for a generic "toss" or "throw". Or how
is "toss" different from these?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons