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  Type: email
  Date: 4 October 2006
  Title: Re: Klingon WOTD: chach (noun)
  Author: Steven Boozer
  Summary: Some more on {chach} ~be auxiliary~.

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Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2006 09:19:13 -0500
To: tlhingan-hol@kli.org
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: chach (noun)


>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, October 4, 2006.
>
>Klingon word:   chach
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     emergency
>
>Additional Notes:
>Auxiliary, backup.  Originally from {veS Qo'noS}, printed in HolQeD 1:3 p9.

Do we know this is a noun?  (Is it listed and labeled in KGT?)  Could it be 
a quality?  Or a homophonous noun/verb pair?

Two unverified examples from canon:

   chach!
   [Emergency!] ST6 (untranslated)

   tlham chach chu'qa'
   Restoring auxiliary gravity. ST6 (clipped?)

If I heard this correctly, {chach} appears to be acting as a quality here: 
"backup/auxiliary gravity".  If it's a noun, I would expect the noun+noun 
phrase ?{chach tlham} "emergency gravity".

Related noun:  ghuH "alert"




--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons


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