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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">De’vID, thanks for the DeCandido citation.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Using the name of a weapon to refer to a person is not unknown, although the only ones in English I can think of right now are “gunsel” (a criminal carrying a
gun) and “hired gun” (a hit man or, more broadly, anyone hired for a specific and often ethically dubious job).
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Speaking of which, the Soviet Cheka (forerunner of the NKVD/MGB/KGB/FSB, etc.) was called in Russian Меч и щит революции (“The Sword and Shield of the Revolution”).
See <a href="https://litci.org/en/the-cheka-sword-and-shield-of-the-revolution/">
https://litci.org/en/the-cheka-sword-and-shield-of-the-revolution/</a> and also <a href="https://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/cheka/">
https://alphahistory.com/russianrevolution/cheka/</a> which has a picture of a Cheka badge featuring the sword.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">Can you and Lieven think of examples in German?<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif">From:</span></b><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif"> tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol-bounces@lists.kli.org>
<b>On Behalf Of </b>De'vID<br>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:4.0pt">On Wed, 14 Apr 2021 at 17:17, Steven Boozer <<a href="mailto:sboozer@uchicago.edu">sboozer@uchicago.edu</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="mso-margin-top-alt:auto;mso-margin-bottom-alt:auto"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri",sans-serif;color:#1F497D">AFAIK Okrand has never provided an official spelling, but see {ghIntaq} “battle spear” which may well
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<p class="MsoNormal">In the glossary to K.R.A. DeCandido's "A Burning House", on p.393, it says:<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">"{ghIntaq}. A type of spear with a wooden haft and a curved, two-bladed metal point. Also the name given to a person who serves as a close and trusted adviser to a House. It is possible that the latter usage evolved from the first, with
the adviser being analogized to a House head's trusted weapon. Sometimes Anglicized as gin'tak. [Spear first seen in "Birthright Part 2" (TNG); adviser first referenced in "Firstborn" (TNG).]"<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">De'vID<o:p></o:p></p>
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