tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Dec 27 07:23:39 2007
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Re: Klingon WOTD: jejHa' (verb)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, December 27, 2007.
>
>Klingon word: jejHa'
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: be dull, be blunt (of blades)
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 85. To the Klingon palate, the best food tastes {tlhorgh}
>("pungent," though some non-Klingons may prefer to translate the word as
>"rank" or "gamy"). The opposite of {tlhorgh} is {tlhorghHa'},
>conventionally translated as "bland" but literally meaning "unpungent,"
>the implication being that the natural punch has somehow been taken out of
>the food as a result of how it was prepared. The same ideas are often
>expressed idiomatically. When talking about the quality of a dish, one
>may say {jej pach} ("The claw is sharp"; that is, the food is pungent) or
>{jejHa' pach} ("The claw is dull"; in other words, the food is bland,
>where {jejHa'} ["dull"] really means something like "de-sharpened").
Additional Additional Notes:
KGT p. 126: To say {jej pach} ("The claw is sharp") is to say that the
food is pungent--that is, good. If the food is bland, one may say {jejHa'
pach} ("The claw is dull").
Used in canon:
'etlh QorghHa'lu'chugh ragh 'etlh nIvqu' 'ej jejHa'choH
Even the best blade will rust and grow dull unless it is cared for. TKW
jejHa'; naH taj rur
dull as a vegetable knife KGT
>Antonyms: jej
"be sharp"
Used in canon:
moQDaq DuQwI'Hommey jej tu'lu'
A brutally spiked pommel fastens the hilt together. SP2
leghlaHchu'be'chugh mIn lo'laHbe' taj jej
A sharp knife is nothing without a sharp eye. TKW
qatlh jej taj
Why is the knife sharp? KGT
jejjaj tajlIj
May your knife be sharp. KGT
tajlIj jejjaj!
May your knife be sharp! (toast) KGT
jej; Daqtagh rur
sharp as a d'k tahg. KGT
Etymological Notes:
{jej} appears as an element in the nouns {naHjej} "thistle" and {naQjej}
"spear".
Trek trivia:
"According to Klingon legend, when honed sharp enough [a bat'leth] can
separate a man from his soul." (STC:KLS)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons