tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Tue Nov 27 09:02:44 2007
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Re: Klingon WOTD: jol (verb)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, November 27, 2007.
>
>Klingon word: jol
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: beam (aboard)
Used in canon:
HIjol
Beam me aboard! Beam me up! TKD
HIjol, jup.
Beam me up, mate. (Radio Times)
DIvI' 'ejDo' 'entepray'Daq Dajollu'
Get beamed aboard the USS Enterprise. STX
jolbogh ghom wa'DIch DamuvlaHmeH De' DaneHchugh, Se'vam yIjIHtaH
Stay tuned for information on how you can be among the first to beam
aboard! STX
Non-canonical definitions:
"Verb, to beam aboard by molecular transport." (STC:KLS)
"BEAM - Foll. by 'up': transport (a person) to a spaceship by a directed
flow of energy." (_Shorter Oxford English Dictionary_ [2002])
Antonym: {Qol} beam away (vt.)
Qollu'ta'
They were beamed aboard a Federation Starship. ST6
(lit. "They were beamed away.")
Cf. also {lup} "transport" [by vehicle]
>Homonyms:
> jol (noun) - transport beam
jol yIchu'
Activate the transport beam! TKD
jol SeHlaw lItHa'
Get off that transporter control panel! PK
matlh, jol yIchu'
Maltz--activate beam! ST3
Related nouns and phrases:
{jol Quv} "transport site"
jol Quv yIchegh
Return to the transport site. (ENT "Affliction")
{jolpat} "transporter system"
jolpatmey
transporter systems (KBoP)
wey jolpat: wa' (jav ghotpu')
Personnel Transporter - 1 (6 Man) (KBoP)
tep jolpat: wa'
Cargo Transporter ? 1 (KBoP)
{jolpa'} "transporter room". Illustrated on KBoP.
jolpa'Daq yIjaH
Go to the transport room!
(Clipped: jolpa' yIjaH) TKD
jolpa' yIjaH. Qapla'!
To the transport room. Success! ST3
{jolvoy'} "transporter ionizer unit". Also called a "materializer" in TOS
"Where No Man Has Gone Before" and a "material transmission unit" in TOS
"Errand of Mercy".
Trek notes:
"They [the Klingons] have activated their material transmission units."
(Trefayne, TOS "Errand of Mercy")
"It's been over an hour! Can people live that long as disassembled atoms in
a transporter beam?" (McCoy, TOS "The Gamesters of Triskelion")
"A cranky transporter's a mighty finicky piece of machinery to be gambling
your life on." (Scott, TOS "The Doomsday Machine")
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons