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Re: Klingon WOTD: leQ (noun)

QeS 'utlh ([email protected])

• From: QeS 'utlh <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: leQ (noun)
• Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 09:24:10 +1000
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 ghItlhpu' Holtej, ja':
>Klingon word:   leQ
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     switch

QIjpu' Voragh, ja':
>Related verbs:
>{chu'} "engage, turn on, activate (a device)"
>{'uy}  "press down" (e.g. *{leQ 'uy} "press a key"?)

If one wants to be specific, also the six "finger verbs" {Sen}, {rIl}, {SIq}, {qay}, {qew} and {qan}. In the article on fingers and thumbs (HQ 10:2), Okrand gives the example {SeHlaw SIq} "touch the control panel with the index finger" (HQ v10n2p8).

QeS 'utlh
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