[tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: QIncha'

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, March 09, 2025

Klingon word: QIncha'
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Krincha, Krencha, type of animal
Source: 'u', paqbatlh, ghunchu'wI' mailing list 2011
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See http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Krencha

*krincha* 	(type of animal) ('u'-OPERA)
*krencha* 	(Shatner's novel, _The Return_) 

(PB2 p.156 note):  A *krencha* (QIncha') is a type of lizard indigenous to Kronos.

(ghunchu'wI', 8/21/11):  The English accompanying the opera said "Krincha, short and fierce".  I found references to a "Krencha" in several places, including the KLI's Extended Corpus Project and the Memory Beta wiki.  It is described as a large, quick lizard native to Qo'noS, variously said to have either four or six legs.  I suspect that the opera's author intended to invoke that animal but misspelled its name.

(MO's KCD audio):  Although {lung} is translated as lizard, it actually can refer to any animal of that general shape, such as a newt or salamander.

SEE ALSO:
ghISDen 	scales (n)
tlhuQ 		tail
pach 		claw (n)
QIm 		egg (n)
pel'aQ 		shell (n)

Duran lung 	Durani lizard (n)
toqvIr lung 	Tokvirian skink (n)

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons