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Re: Klingon WOTD: gho (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: gho (noun)
• Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:17:24 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, June 16, 2007.
>
>Klingon word:   gho
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     circle, hoop

Used in canon:

   vIHtaH gho
   The hoop is moving. (idiom: "hurry up!"] KGT

"The expression comes from a maneuver used for hunting practice known as 
the {qa'vaQ} in which a hoop ({gho}) is rolled and one tries to throw a 
stick through it while it is moving. The verb {vIH} ('move, be in motion') 
can be applied to any sort of motion. In this case, it refers to the motion 
associated with the hoop in this exercise, namely rolling. In the idiom, 
the verb occurs with the suffix {-taH} ('continuous'), implying that the 
hoop continues to roll for a period of time (though it will not do so 
forever)." (KGT 111-12)

   'Iw 'Ip ghomey
   "Blood Oath Circles" (name of a well-known sculpture) KCD

   meyrI'Daq 'oHtaH gho'e'
   The circle is in the square. [qep'a' 2005]

Related nouns:

{rutlh} wheel; {Qeb} "ring (for finger)"




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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