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

Steven Boozer sboozer at uchicago.edu
Wed May 7 08:03:15 PDT 2014


> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 07, 2014
> 
> Klingon word: lIb
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be impending, imminent, loom
> Source: Star Trek Into Darkness, qepHom 2013

  Qob lIb bam SoH chuDlI' je. STID
  [You and your people face imminent danger. (??)]

Here are the other two new words.  Anyone have the actual subtitle from the movie?  

bam  		face, have the prospect of having to deal with (v) STID
chuD  	people, kin, member of the same group or tribe or clan (n) STID


Similar ideas:

ghuHmoH 	warn (v)
pav 		be urgent (v)

maQmIgh 	dark omen, sign of evil coming (n)
leSSov 	foresight (n)
San 		fate (n)

tugh 		soon (adv)
nom 		fast, quickly (adv)
SIbI' 	immediately (adv)
pay' 		suddenly (adv)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons





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