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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, November 11, 2012
> 
> Klingon word:   DaS
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     boot
 

mIv DaS je tuQ ra'wI' 
The commander is wearing a helmet and a boot. KGT

mIv je DaS tuQ ra'wI' 
The commander is in full dress uniform. 
(idiom: "The commander wears helmet and boot.") (KGT 107f.)

KGT 108:  Finally, it is important to note that the idiomatic expression is always {mIv je DaS} (helmet and boot), never {DaS je mIv} (boot and helmet). As is frequently the case in idioms, the order of elements cannot be changed.

pumDI' DaS 
when the boot falls 
[i.e. "by that time"] (st.k 11/99)

yIntaH qIrq 'e' vIneH. DaSwIj bIngDaq latlhpu' vItap. 
Kirk I want alive. The rest I will grind beneath my boot. (STConst p.232)
("I want that Kirk keeps living. I will mash the others under my boot." [sic! typo for qIrq'e'? (qurgh)])

Cultural note:

HQ 10.2:10:  certain positions in Klingon classical ballet (never performed with shoes or boots)...


PUN:
"Das Boot"!

"Last year [at {qep'a' wejDIch}], I asked Marc Okrand if it was intentional; he said yes. (Perhaps the success of 'Das Boot' with its German dialogue and English subtitles is related to Paramount's deciding to do something similar with Klingon in ST3.)" (ghunchu'wI')


Related nouns:

DaSpu'  	boot spike 

KGT 58:  On the toe of each high boot ({DaS}), likewise made of animal hide ({Dir}), was a clawlike spike called a {pu'}. The word {pu'} now means phaser, and the newer meaning probably developed from the older spike because of the lightning speed with which one delivered a blow with the sharp {pu'}. In contemporary Klingon, the spike on the toe of a boot is always called a {DaSpu'} (boot spike), never {pu'} alone.

(N.B. Worf had a large bump on the top of each foot near the little toe. [TNG "Ethics"] Was the DaSpu' originally to protect this part of the foot?)

waq 		shoe
paSlogh 	socks (pl.?)

'uS 		leg
qam	 	foot
mov 		top of foot
bem 		sole (of foot)
va'nuch 	heel
yaD 		toe


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons