[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: vung

[nIqolay Q]

Here's a question: Since the implied subject of weather words is usually
*muD* (or sometimes maybe *chal* for precipitation and the like), how would
you all interpret *vungwI'*?
Would you read it as the noun "hurricane", as in the part of the atmosphere
that's hurricaning, considered as a single system? (So you could perhaps
say something like *FloridaDaq ghoSlI' 'Irma' vungwI'* *"Hurricane Irma is
approaching Florida"*, with the assumption that "hurricane" is treated like
a rank or title.)
Or would it be taken to mean something less specific or useful, like "the
atmosphere as a whole, which happens to be hurricaning somewhere", assuming
it means anything at all?


On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer at uchicago.edu>
wrote:

> Klingon word: vung
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: cyclone, hurricane
> Source: qep'a' 24 [2017]
> _______________________________________________
>
> "storm like a hurricane/cyclone"
>
> SEE ALSO:
> jev             storm (v)
> SIS             rain (v)
> cheq            storm like a tornado, tornado (v)
> ver             be spiral (v)
>
> (qurgh < MO, qep'a' 2017):  You can also say {ver SuS'a'} "a tornado
> happens" (literally: "the big wind spirals").  {ver SuS} (or {ver SuSHom})
> would most likely refer to a whirlwind.
>
> --
> Voragh
> Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
>
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