[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tutlh (verb)

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, December 20, 2025

Klingon word: tutlh
Part of speech: verb
Definition: be tattooed, have a tattoo
Source: Marc Okrand email to Qov 3 October 2017
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(Qov > Lieven, 10/08/2017):  For tattoo, I got some new stuff from Maltz:  {tutlh} "have a tattoo, be tattooed (so {tutlhmoH} is to tattoo). The noun tattoo is {DIr tutlh}.  If you have one pattern/design on your arm, say, that's an example of a {DIr tutlh}.  If you have lots of independent patterns/designs, interwoven or separated, the whole lot of them taken together is/are {DIr tutlh}.

SEE ALSO:
ghItlh 		incise, mark (v)
pe' 		cut (v)

DIr 		skin, hide  (n)
rItlh 		pigment, dye, ink (n)

Degh 		emblem, symbol, mark (n)
ngutlh  		letter, written  character, glyph (n) 
  -  "Since {ngutlh} refers specifically to symbols used to represent language, {mIllogh ngutlh} makes sense for hieroglyph. (qep'a' 2022)

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