Klingon word: rIS
Part of speech: verb
Definition: make a cracking or snapping sound, emit a signal
Source: qepHom 2017
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Lieven (LLL) interviews Okrand (MO) [qepHom 2017 p.13]:
MO: For signal I suggest the verb {rIS}. This means "make a
cracking or snapping sound" but can also be used to mean
"emit a signal". Maybe Klingons used to use Geiger
counters a lot.
LLL: How is this different to {tlhuD} "emit radiation"?
MO: {rIS} originally referred to emitting sound only. Later
the meaning was extended to mean emitting any sort of
signal - sound, radiation, smell, etc. {tlhuD} refers to
radiation only.
LLL: So a {rISwI'} would be some sending device, right?
MO: It could mean this, yes.
LLL: How would I say that I receive or detect a signal?
What about {rISHa'}? Is it the opposite of "sending"?
MO: {rISHa'} would refer to sending a signal improperly, like
maybe to the wrong person. It wouldn't mean receive or
detect a signal.
yuQDaq Dat rISbogh wabvam Qoylu'.
The signature sound of the planet, heard everywhere on the surface.
(DSC "Si Vis Pacem..." [Lieven's subtitles])
HoD, paw vay'. rIS 'op pIvghor 'e' vItu'.
Captain, incoming! Warp signatures detected!
(DSC "Battle At the Binary Stars" [Lieven's subtitles])
(Lieven, 11/07/2017) : I need to look back where you mean this, but {rIS} somehow means making a crackling sound, so it can surely be used for any kind of humming or crackling device, and also anything that is emitting something besides of sound or radiation. To detect a warp signature, you actually detect that the warpdrive is {rIS}ing.
SEE ALSO:
*rISwI' transponder (n) (DSC "Lethe" [subtitles]);
sonar (n) (DSC "Si Vis Pacem..." [subtitles])
jabbI'ID data transmission (n)
maQ signal, sign (n)
QIn message (n)
rI'Se' hailing frequency (n)
Se' frequency (n)
Sotlaw' distress call (n)
Qum communicate (v)
lab transmit data (away from a place) (v)
lI' transmit data (to a place) (v)
rIt summon (v)
rI' hail (v)
tlhuD emit [energy, radiation, etc.] (v)
PUN: "making a snapping, crackling, or popping sound" -- Rice Crispies, i.e. "snap, crackle, pop"!
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons