[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tej
Steven Boozer
sboozer at uchicago.edu
Tue Mar 1 08:09:25 PST 2022
Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, March 01, 2022
Klingon word: tej
Part of speech: noun
Definition: scientist
Source: TKD
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AFAIK never used in a sentence.
GRAMMATICAL NOTES:
(De’vID, 7/26/2019): At the 2014 Saarbrücken qepHom'a' … Okrand made a remark along the lines that, generally, if there's a {QeD}, there's a corresponding {tej}. Sometimes he explicitly reveals a {tej} for a {QeD}, but sometimes he doesn't.
(qepHom 2019 booklet): There is a pattern that if there is a {xQeD}, then the {xtej} is automatically correct. {xQeD} and {xtej} are generally written without a space, but there are few exceptions: {DI'ruj QeD} "metaphysics" is two words (as is {DI'ruj tej}). Also, {Hov leng QeD} "treknology" is a made-up word (or phrase) that doesn't come from Klingon culture; it was a one-time translation of a chapter heading in a non-Klingon publication. So Klingons aren't concerned about that one.
SEE:
DI'ruj tej [metaphysician] (n) [N.B. two words]
Hovtej astronomer (n)
mI' tej mathematician (n) [N.B. two words]
quntej historian (n)
yuQtej geographer (n)
'an'ortej paleontologist (n)
'otlhtej someone who studies quantum mechanics (n)
SEE ALSO:
QeD science (n)
wIgh genius (n)
jonwI' engineer (n)
HaDwI' student, scholar (n)
Qel doctor, physician (n)
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Voragh, Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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