[Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: baQ

[Noah Bogart]

Homonym with {baQ} (verb): Be fresh, just picked. (Said of a fruit or
vegetable.).

On Thu, Nov 10, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>wrote:

> > Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, November 10, 2011
> >
> > Klingon word: baQ
> > Part of speech: verb
> > Definition: toss *bat'leth* from one hand to the other
>
> Never used in a sentence.
>
> 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 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} ... When teaching someone to use the bat'leth, the tutor
> will shout out movements--for example, {yIjop! yIway'!} ("Lunge! Defend!").
> Generally in such a situation, however, the tutor will used the shortened
> form of the language known as Clipped Klingon and skip the imperative
> prefix {yI-}, leaving only the bare verb: {jop! way'!} It is important to
> note that the tutor is giving the student direct commands ("Lunge!
> Defend!"), not shouting out the names of movements.
>
> Related verbs include:
>
> {yan}  "wield, use or manipulate a sword"
> {chuH} "throw (a spear) at, hurl (a spear) at"
> {jaD}  "throw around, hurl about"
>
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
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