Klingon word: rIS Part of speech: verb Definition: make a cracking or snapping sound, emit a signal Source: qepHom 2017 _______________________________________________ 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"! -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons