[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: 'eng (noun)

[ghunchu'wI' 'utlh]

Perhaps these are treating 'eng cloud not as an object but as a mass noun akin to “grass” or “wool”. I would be willing to think of it as working like “rock”, which can be either a countable thing or a substance (e.g. a “rock wall”).

Or perhaps it’s just an error in canon. 

— ghunchu'wI'

> On Dec 18, 2025, at 4:09 AM, Luis via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol at lists.kli.org> wrote:
> 
> Shouldn't these sentences have the prefix *lu-*, since we are speaking of "clouds" (plural)? Or is it a "weather exception"?
> 
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> 
>> (qurgh < Okrand, qep'a' 2016):  For a cloudy day, he used {jul So' 'eng} ("clouds hide the sun") or {jul tlhoDmoH 'eng} ("clouds filter the sun") ... depending on just how cloudy things are.
>> 
>> wa'Hu' jul So'mo' 'eng...
>> Because it was (pretty) cloudy yesterday...
>> (lit. "Because yesterday clouds hid the sun...") (qep'a'
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