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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Qach

Felix Malmenbeck ([email protected])



> AFAIK never used in canon.  (Any examples in the paq'batlh? There must be some battle scenes.)

There is one:

paq'raD Canto 20 is titled
pe'vIl mupmeH betleH Qach
which is translated as
The Mighty Blow of the Bat'leth

It's worth noting that despite the translation, one should still probably interpret Qach as a verb, here; many of the English titles which are "noun:y" have corresponding Klingon titles which are "verb:y". For example

paq'raD Canto 23
Hay' chaH
The Duel

paq'raD Canto 24
molor tlhabmoHlu'
Molor's Release



-----Original Message-----
From: Steven Boozer [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: den 17 juli 2013 16:24
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Qach

> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 17, 2013
> 
> Klingon word: Qach
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: wield, swing (a weapon)

AFAIK never used in canon.  (Any examples in the paq'batlh? There must be some battle scenes.) 

KGT 63-4f:  To wield or swing an ax is {Qach} ... To wield or swing a club is {Qach}... To manipulate the {'aqleH} is {Qach}.

KGT 67:  As with axes, to wield or swing a club is {Qach}.

Use with {'obmaQ} (ax), {jey'naS} (double-headed ax), {'alngegh} (ax with an added spike at the end), {jeqqIj} (club, bludgeon) and {ghanjaq} (mace - a club with a metal head, sometimes sporting spikes), {'aqleH} ((half ax, half bat'leth).  

Can {Qach} be used with the {betleH) (bat'leth) and {meqleH} (mek'leth) as well (in an ax-like fashion)? 

KGT 59-60:  There is an extensive vocabulary for the moves associated with bat'leth use. To thrust or lunge toward one's opponent, for example, is {jop}. To deflect a thrust-that is, to parry - is {way'}. To thrust either end of the bat'leth (as opposed to the long part of the blade) upward is {chaQ}. To change the approximate orientation of the weapon from horizontal to vertical is {ngol}; the reverse is {lev}. To slide the blade of one's bat'leth along the blade of the opponent's weapon is {DIj}. To twirl or rotate the bat'leth is {jIrmoH} and to toss it from one hand to the other (the same word is used whether left to right or right to left) is {baQ}.

Cf. {yan} "wield, use or manipulate a sword" (v)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons





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