[Tlhingan-hol] "So what's Klingon for 'Now get your kit off?'"

[David Trimboli]

On 5/28/2013 3:47 PM, Felix Malmenbeck wrote:
>> tuQ = wear
>> tuQHa' = undress (undo-wear)
>> tuQHa'choH = undress, resulting in a change of state (from not
>> undressing to undressing)
>
> I would not translate tuQHa' as "undress", but rather as "unwear",
> suggestion that you've worn something but no longer are.

Hence my gloss, "undo-wear."

> tuqHa'choH = "start unwearing", or "undress"

I don't see any reason that "start" is necessary to make it equal 
"undress." To un-wear is to undress. To start un-wearing is to start 
undressing. To finish un-wearing is to finish undressing. {chenHa'} is 
"come apart" without a {-choH} on it.

Anyway, the phrase "get your kit off" doesn't mean to START getting 
undressed, it is a command to make yourself naked.

> We also have the odd case of «tuQmoH», "put on (clothes)" [TKD],
> which appears to be its own root verb, distinct from tuQ+moH.
> «tuQmoHHa'» = "take off" —
> <http://klingonska.org/canon/search/?file=1993-12-holqed-02-4.txt&get=source>

As I said, odd translations in TKD.

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