[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: qo'vID (noun)

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: qo'vID
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Covid 19 (SARS-CoV-2 disease)
Source: qepHom 2020
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Properly {qo'vID wa'maH Hut}.

SEE:
(Lieven < MO, 2/27/2021):  Maltz thought that {javtIm raS'IS} could be used for vaccine, adding that it's really a shortened form of {javtIm ngeb raS'IS} but, in context, nobody gets confused (except anti-vaxxers).  Use of the term {raS'IS} is a holdover from ancient forms of medicine.  This noun is typically the object of the verb {SIQ} when you talk about getting or receiving a vaccine.  For administering the vaccine, you still hear the verb {poch}, as in {javtIm raS'IS poch Qel}.  One could also say {javtIm raS'IS pochmeH Hergh QaywI' lo' Qel}.  But it's more common to say simply {javtIm raS'IS Qay Qel}, since, in a medical context, the verb {Qay} normally implies that a {Hergh QaywI'} was involved.

SEE ALSO:
qoro'na javtIm 		Corona virus (n)

javtIm 			virus (n)
rop  			disease,  sickness (n)
rop'a'  			plague (n) [also epidemic,  pandemi, etc.?]
Hergh 			medicine (n)
Hergh QaywI'  		pneumatic hypo (medical device) [i.e. hypospray] (n)

ngej 			infect (v)
pIvHa' 			be unhealthy (v)
rop 			be sick, ill (v)
vor 			cure
SIQ  			endure, bear; experience, undergo (v)

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