[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: choH

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, June 25, 2023

Klingon word: choH
Part of speech: verb
Definition: alter, change
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DaH Heraj yIchoH 
Alter your course now. (ST5 notes)

HIvHe yIchoHmoH 
Alter the attack course! (ST5)

tlhIngan choHlu' rIntaH 
The Klingon's transition was complete. (PB, i.e. 
   after Lukara stabbed & killed him)

(KGT 106-7):  By the same token, literally translating a sentence such as "The restaurant changed hands" into Klingon, presumably as {ghopDu' choHpu' Qe'} ("The restaurant has altered hands") or perhaps {ghopDu' tampu' Qe'} ("The restaurant has exchanged hands"), does not tell the Klingon that the restaurant is now under new ownership, which is what the Federation Standard phrase really means.

SEE:
choH  		change,  reaction (n)
  - choH lISbogh Hap'e': cha'pujqut 
    Reaction Moderating Element - Crystalline Dilithium. KBoP
  - parmaq choH pagh teHqu', choH tu'DI' lajDaj. 
     Love is not love which alters when it alteration finds (Sonnet 116)

choHmoH  	alter/change (something) (v)
   - HIvHe yIchoHmoH 
     Alter the attack course! (ST5) 

choHwI'  	thing which alters [something] (n)
   cha'puj choHwI' 	dilithium processor (n) 
   Hap choHwI' 		replicator (n)
   HoS choHwI' 		transtator (n)
   Soj choHwI' 		food replicator (slang) (n)
   woj choHwI' 		reactor ("thing which alters radiation") (n)

SEE ALSO:
ghe' 		be transformed, transmuted, metamorphosed, 
		  totally altered (v)
tam 		substitute (v)
Dub 		improve (v)
rach 		strengthen (v)
lIS 		adjust (v)

“The past was alterable. The past never had been altered.” (George Orwell, _1984_)

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