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

[De'vID]

On Mon, Dec 3, 2012 at 4:06 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> >> 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)


Or Floris Schönfeld looked up "predecessor", found {nubwI'}, and used it
without ever considering {nungwI'}.  I think they're essentially synonyms.
 But now it's ambiguous when we say {nubwI'} whether we mean something that
is suspect or a predecessor.

-- 
De'vID
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