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

[Steven Boozer]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, November 29, 2012
> 
> Klingon word:   lIw
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     substitute, stand-in, temporary surrogate

Used in canon:

  polmeH jav QujwI' lIwmey 
  6 collectible tokens (MKE)

Pun/Mnemonic:
"in lieu of"

Language notes:

HQ 5.1:  The word {qa'meH} ... has become accepted as a noun in its own right, meaning replacement in the sense of something that takes over for or is used instead of something that is gone or that has been lost. It is not used for a temporary substitute or a stand-in; the word for that is {lIw}.

Related vocabulary:

velqa' 	replica (n)

tam 		substitute (v)
ru'  	be temporary (v)
gheS 	assume duties of, take on responsibilities (v)


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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons