Klingon word: yIb Part of speech: noun Definition: vent Source: TKD
Voragh wrote:
Not sure how this is different from the noun {ghImwI'} "exhaust", used once in the BOP Poster: peng baHjan tuj ghImwI' heat exhaust for torpedo launcher (KBoP)
Is {yIb} more of an opening while {ghImwI'} - derived from {ghIm} "exile" - is an active device?
Kechpaja/SapIr:
I would assume that a {ghImwI'} is a type of {yIb}. A vent doesn't necessarily have to be used for getting rid of some substance, even though that's what we normally think of when we hear the word.
SEE ALSO: tlhuch exhaust (v) vuj expel, eject (v) (qep'a' 2016) nIj leak (v)
Do we know what the argument structure of {nIj} is? Is the subject the substance that's leaking, or the object from which it is leaking?
Good question but AFAIK {nIj} has never been used in a sentence.
tlhuD emit (v) natlh use up (v)
What are the main semantic differences between {natlh} and {tlhuch}?
natlh use up, consume, expend: KGT 155: Literally meaning "consume, use up, expend", {natlh} is normally applied to energy, fuel, supplies, and the like and is used in phrases such as {nIn Hoch natlhlu'pu'} ("All the fuel has been consumed"), with {nIn Hoch} ("all the fuel") functioning as the object of the verb {natlhlu'pu'} ("someone/something has consumed it"). HoS law'qu' natlhmo' So'wI' Due to the tremendous energy drain of a cloaking device... S33 tlhuD emit (energy, radiation): chIch vay' 'oy'moHmeH 'oy'naQ 'ul law' tlhuD 'oH Painstiks... emit a highly-charged shock for the express purpose of inflicting pain. S32
Slash which sense of "exhaust" does {tlhuch} refer to (exhausting a person, exhausting a resource, or emitting exhaust)?
AFAIK {tlhuch} has never been used either. -- Voragh tlhIngan ghantoH pIn'a' Ca'Non Master of the Klingons