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Re: Klingon WOTD: lIH (verb)

McArdle ([email protected])



{namtun}
   
  To quote Dave Barry:  "Har!"
   
   
  mIq'ey
Steven Boozer <[email protected]> wrote:
  
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, March 8, 2007.
>
>Klingon word: lIH
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: introduce
>
>Additional Notes:
>HolQeD 12:2, p. 7, "Maltz's Reward: Part I." To begin to sing a song is 
>to {lIH} (literally, "introduce") the song.

HolQeD continues:

... and that portion of the song that comes at the beginning&shy;-a
portion that is often so familiar that listeners know what song
it is after hearing just that short portion&shy;-is the {namtun}.

Related verbs:

{qIH} "meet (for the first time)"; {ghom} "meet, encounter"



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