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

Steven Boozer sboozer at uchicago.edu
Thu Jul 26 07:41:35 PDT 2012


> Klingon word:   jIm
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: heave (aircraft rising or falling without pitching)
 
AFAIK never used in canon.

HQ 11.2:  When the plane moves up or down (not when the nose points up or down, but when the plane increases or decreases altitude, as if the whole plane is being pushed up or down), it is said to {jIm} "heave".

Related words:

'Iv		altitude (n)

Dav  	sway (i.e. aircraft) (v)
Der  	yaw (i.e. aircraft) (v)
jer  	surge (i.e. aircraft) (v)
ron  	roll, bank (e.g. aircraft) (v)
tor  	pitch (i.e. aircraft) (v)

lol  	be in an attitude (i.e. aircraft) (v)
taH  	be at a negative angle (e.g. aircraft) (v)

Sal 		ascend (v)
toS 		climb (v)

ghIr 	descend (v)
pum 		fall (v)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



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