[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Sumlugh

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: Sumlugh
Part of speech: noun
Definition: definition
Source: qep'a' 29 [2022]
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(qep'a' 2022 Q & A):
   [Q:]  By meaning or definition, I assume you mean how a Klingon word would be defined in Klingon (or a Toki Pona word defined in Toki Pona) - that is only one language is involved.  Is that correct? 
   [A:]  The word for definition (as in a monolingual dictionary) is {Sumlugh}.  To say "X means Y" (where X is a word and Y is its meaning or definition or gloss), use {ghaS}, sometimes along with {mu'} for clarity:  {Y ghaS X (mu')}.  A colloquial (or perhaps slang) way of expressing the definition of a word within the same language - not when translating - is to use {'ang} instead of {ghaS}:  {Y 'ang X (mu')}.  X could, of course, be a phrase. If so, it can be followed by either {mu'} or {mu'mey}, more frequently the former.

SEE ALSO:
mu' 		word (n)
mu'ghom 	dictionary (n)
mu'tay'  	vocabulary (n)
jIyweS 		translation, gloss, definition (n)
mughwI' 	translator (n)

mugh 		translate (v)
'oS 		represent (v)
'ang 		show, display (v)
ghaS 		indicate, signal (v)


   "When I use a word," Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, "it means just what I choose it to mean-neither more nor less."
   "The question is," said Alice, "whether you can make words mean so many different things." 
   "The question is," said Humpty Dumpty, "which is to be master - that's all." -- [Lewis Carroll, "Through the Looking-Glass"] 

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons