[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghu'lIS

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: 	ghu'lIS
Part of speech: 	noun
Definition: 	item in a list
Source: 	Email from De'vID
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AFAIK never used in a sentence.

LANGUAGE NOTES:
(De'vID < MO, 2/17/2018):  For purposes of boQwI’ [i.e. De'vID's computer program], "definition" would be {jIyweS} "translation, gloss".  It’s not a definition like in an English-only (or any-language-only) dictionary (that explains/describes a word’s meaning); it’s a quick tag to give you an idea of what the word means.  For "entry", Maltz suggests {ghu’lIS} "item in a list".

(De'vID, 2/10/2018):  "Be sorted" is {patlh}, which also means "have a rank of".  So sort is {patlhmoH}, also meaning rank.  The object of {patlhmoH} is not a list (as a whole) but the things in the list, the things to be ranked or sorted.  {Sal} and {ghIr} cannot be used for sort order.  To sort [{patlhmoH}] a list of English words alphabetically (or reverse alphabetically), use constructions like {wa’DIch a}, {HochDIch z} or {wa’DIch z}, {HochDIch a}.  For a list of Klingon words, it would be {wa’DIch bay, HochDIch qaghwI’, wa’DIch qaghwI’, HochDIch bay}.  You’d use similar constructions to sort by date or whatever. I’m assuming that, for your purposes, you wouldn’t sort by anything other than something that can be put in a specific order – that is, not sorting by color, for example... And to the question of whether *{yoymoH} could be used for reversing a list, he replied: "No. Use {DopmoH} "cause to be opposite." 

(qep’a’ 2015):  When asked about navigating lists or events, [Maltz] gave us {vorgh} "be previous" (opposite of {veb} "be next").  Can also use {nungbogh} ({nung} "precede")… 

SEE:
natlIS 		last item in a list (n)

(HQ 12.2:9):  for the beginning of a list (of names or words, for example, whether spoken out loud or written on a scroll), one would say simply {pong wa'DIch} "first name" or {mu' wa'DIch} "first word".  For the end, one could say {pong HochDIch} "last name" or {mu' HochDIch} "last word", but one could also use a special term for the end of the list, {natlIS}.

PUN:  last but "not least"

SEE ALSO:
tetlh 		list (n)
Qumran 	scroll (n)
HIDjolev 	menu (n)
mem 		catalog (n)

Qav 		be final, last (v)
tlha' 		chase,  follow (v)

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