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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon word: mIw
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: step, stage (in a process)

  'oy'naQ Dachu'Ha'DI' mIw HochDIch Data' 
  When you turn the painstik off, you accomplish the last
  step. KGT

  'oy'naQ DaQeqDI' mIw wa'DIch Data', 'ach 'oy'naQ Dachu'DI'
  mIw paghDIch Data'
  When you aim the painstik, you accomplish the first step,
  but when you turn the painstik on, you accomplish the zeroth
  step. KGT

["The implication here is that activating the painstik must be done before beginning the ritualistic part of the ceremony." (KGT 177)]

  porgh mIw 
  bodily function

["Maltz was familiar with the scientific study of bodily functions, or {porghQeD}, but he didn't consider himself terribly well versed in the field. The closest he could come to 'bodily function' was {porgh mIw}, literally 'body process', but he had a hard time thinking of an everyday sentence containing that phrase. He said that Klingons don't talk all that much about bodily functions as a group, but they certainly do talk about specific bodily functions." (HQ 12.4:8)]

Related words:
jey 		itinerary (n)
jInmol 	project (n)
nab 		plan (n)
tagh 	begin a process (v)

*{De'wI' mIw} is often used on the List for a "computer program".  (Note the verb {ghun} "program [a computer]".)


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons