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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon word:   roS
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition:     use the third toe

Never used in a sentence AFAIK.

HQ 10.2:10f.:  {roS} "use the third toe" is phonetically identical to {roS} "lick" as well as the {roS} found in {roSHa'moH} "paralyze" [...] A verb {roS} having anything to do with general mobility does not occur except in {roSHa'moH}. If the toe verb {roS} is the same verb, paralyze means "cause to not use the third toe". Perhaps mobility of the third toe was associated somehow with mobility in general. Indeed, there is an idiomatic expression {pe'vIl roS} "he/she uses his/her third toe forcefully" which conveys the idea that he or she is particularly agile or nimble or spry. On the other hand, maybe the motions of the Klingon third toe look like a tongue licking.

HQ 10.2:11:  There is a joke, Maltz recalled, about someone trying to lick [{roS}] some food off of a stirring stick [{DuDwI'} or {'un naQ}] while wearing shoes [{waqmey}]. Maltz laughed, but didn't tell the joke.

Related words:
roSwI'  	third toe (n.) 

PUN:
"This little piggy had ROASt beef"


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons