[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: luqlev

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, August 15, 2024

Klingon word: luqlev
Part of speech: noun
Definition: curfew
Source: qep'a' 27 [2020]
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AFAIK not used in a sentence.

PUN:  backward = {vel} "cover" + {qul} "fire".  Cf. Google Dictionary:

   a regulation requiring people to remain indoors between specified hours,
   typically at night.  "a dusk-to-dawn curfew"
        [ ... ]
   Middle English (denoting a regulation requiring people to extinguish fires 
   at a fixed hour in the evening, or a bell rung at that hour): from Old French
   *cuevrefeu*, from *cuvrir* 'to cover' + *feu* 'fire'. The current sense dates 
   from the late 19th century.

SEE ALSO:
ghum 		alarm (n)
Sotlaw' 		distress call (n)
ghuH 		alert (n)

ghum  		alarm,  sound an alarm (v)
ghuH  		prepare for,  be alerted to (v)
ghuHmoH  	alert,  warn (v)

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