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Re: Klingon WOTD: 'Iv (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, January 16, 2007.
>
>Klingon word:   'Iv
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     altitude

   When the plane moves up or down (not when the nose points up or
   down, but when the plane increases or decreases altitude, as if
   the whole plane is being pushed up or down), it is said to {jIm}
   "heave." (HQ 11.2)

   Altitude is how high the airplane is, the Klingon word is {'Iv},
   and in English you are "at an altitude." (Qov)

Related verbs:

{ghIr} descend; {Sal} ascend

>Homonyms:
>     'Iv (question) - who?

Used in canon:

   yaS legh 'Iv
   Who sees the officer? TKD

   'Iv legh yaS
   Whom does the officer see? TKD

   SoH 'Iv Who are you? CK

   SoH 'Iv jay'!
   [Who the hell are you?!] ST6



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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