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

[Steven Boozer]

>> Klingon word:   nub
>> Part of speech: verb
>> Definition:     be suspect
>> Source:         TKD
 
Voragh: 
> pIH     be suspicious
> voqHa'  distrust
> voq     trust
> chun    be innocent
> DIv     be guilty
> -law'   "suspect that", etc.

De'vID:
> There's also the noun {nubwI'}, which is defined as
> "predecessor", and the verb {nung}, "precede".  The
> definition of {nubwI'} is something which is rather
> suspect.

I've wondered whether this should have been *{nungwI'} from {nung} "preceed".  But once published it was established and Okrand eventually used {nubwI'} in the paq'batlh:

  qeylIS bov nubwI' 
  before the era of Kahless (PB xiv)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons