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Encyclopedia > Augment
See also Augment (Star Trek) for the fictional race

In linguistics, the augment is a Greek (the augment survives and has been generalised in Modern Greek), Armenian, and the Indo_Iranian languages such as Sanskrit, to form the perfect, preterite, or aorist tenses.


For example, in classical Greek, the verb λέγω légô, “I speak”, forms its imperfect tense ἔλεγον élegon, “I was speaking”. The initial ε e represents the augment.


Philologists are uncertain whether the augment is a feature that was added to these branches of Indo-European, or whether the augment was present in the parent language and lost by all other branches.






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Klingon augment virus - Memory Alpha, the Star Trek Wiki (1207 words)
The Klingon augment virus was a modified form of Levodian flu that threatened to wipe out the Klingon race in the mid-22nd century.
Around this time, the writing staff had recently concluded the three-part Augment Crisis arc, and it occurred to them that some of the genetically-engineered embryos might have survived the destruction of the Bird of Prey, and that the Klingons might use these embryos to bio-engineer their own version of "Klingon supermen".
In "Divergence", the female Laneth, newly infected by the Augment virus, claimed that she "felt fear for the first time since I was a child." Her fellow augmented warriors had "become like (humans)...
Augment (Star Trek) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (864 words)
In Enterprise, Augments were introduced in "Borderland" and were the focus of a three-episode story arc that continued in "Cold Station 12" and "The Augments".
Augments, a group of genetically engineered "supermen", born in the late 1960s as the result of an ambitious project to improve the human race.
Arik Soong was director of the facility, and stole 19 of the embryos.
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