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Re: Klingon WOTD: tennuS (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: tennuS (noun)
• Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 09:08:53 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, June 1, 2007.
>
>Category: People
>
>Klingon word:   tennuS
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     uncle; one's father's brother

Cf. {tennuSnal}  uncle (father's sister's husband)

Pun:  Uncle Tenus ("teh-NOOSE") on the "Danny Thomas Show"

>Synonyms: 'IrneH

{'IrneH}     uncle (mother's brother)
{'IrneHnal}  uncle (mother's sister's husband)

Pun:   Dorothy's Uncle Henry from "The Wizard of Oz" - not to be confused 
with the name {HenrI'} ("In Shakespeare's original Klingon version of 
{HenrI' vagh}, known in Federation Standard as "Henry V" [KGT 126]).

naHQun has a nice set of charts of Klingon family ({qorDu'}) relationships 
online at 
<http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/purpleelaphants/tlhInganHol/qorDuSor.html>http://www.angelfire.com/tx4/purpleelaphants/tlhInganHol/qorDuSor.html 





--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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