tor

be pitching, be tilting (aircraft tilts nose up or down)

Part of speech

verb

Pronunciation

tʰor

Sound out tor letter by letter:

• ttʰstrongly aspirated t
• ooo as in 'go'
• rrlightly trilled or rolled r

• And when the nose of the plane moves up or down, the plane is said to tor pitch. (the word tor also means kneel, which Maltz thought was apt, since if a four-legged animal is able to kneel with either its hind legs or its front legs, it is able to pitch or tilt up or down.) [HolQeD-11-2 p.9]

Translation given in HolQeD-11-2 is tor pitch, however that article seems to suggest that the word works similarly to ron be banking, be rolling, and is therefore translated as be pitching here. One would probably say tor Duj the vessel is pitching, and Duj tormoH 'orwI' the pilot causes the vessel to pitch.

• Der — be yawing, be turning (aircraft move nose left or right)
• ron — be banking, be rolling (aircraft rotates around longitudinal axis), be rolling (about dice)
• jIm — be heaving, be moving up or down, be descending or ascending (about aircraft)
• Dav — be swaying, be moving left or right (aircraft moving without turning)
• jer — be surging, be moving forwards or backwards suddenly (about aircraft)

HolQeD-11-2 p.9

Originally sourced from klingonska.org and enhanced by lingoXpress.