[tlhIngan-Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Hoqra'

[De'vID]

On Fri, 3 Jun 2016, 17:08 Steven Boozer, <sboozer at uchicago.edu> wrote:

> > Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, June 03, 2016
> >
> > Klingon word: Hoqra'
> > Part of speech: noun
> > Definition: tricorder
>
> AFAIK never used in canon.
>
> Klingon tricorders were seen and used by Kruge's landing party in ST3.
>
> The name tricorder refers to "a triple sensor-recorder-analyzer function"
> (ghunchu'wI').
>
> PUN:
> The GTE Expedition Trike is a well-known brand of adult racing tricycle
> made by Greenspeed USA.
>

Are these truly "well-known", and did they even exist at the time of TKD's
publication? And does Okrand own one?

{Hoq} "expedition" (= "trek) + {ra'} "order" > "trek-order" > "tricorder"
is another possible derivation.

-- 
De'vID

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