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

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, October 25, 2025

Klingon word: 'aQlo'
Part of speech: noun
Definition: forehead (regional)
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AFAIK never used in a sentence.

(KGT pp.28f.):  The standard word for this prominent part of Klingon anatomy is {Quch}, and this word is found with this meaning throughout the Empire.  In addition, however, practically every dialect has its own alternate word for forehead.  Indeed, {Quch} is simply the word for forehead in the First City.  Among these other forms are:  {boD, jargh, mIQ, 'aQlo', Huy'Dung, tuqvol, no''och}.  While the first four of these words are simply regionalisms for forehead, the last three can be analyzed, at least partially." 

TERRAN PARALLEL? :
To the Romans, the shameless were "without forehead," at least figuratively.  Effrontery derives from Latin *effrons*, a word that combines the prefix *ex-* (meaning "out" or "without") and *frons* (meaning "forehead" or "brow").  The Romans never used *effrons^ literally to mean "without forehead," and theorists aren't in full agreement about the connection between the modern meaning of effrontery and the literal senses of its roots.  Some explain that *frons* can also refer to the capacity for blushing, so a person without *frons* would be unblushing or shameless.  Others theorize that since the Romans believed that the brow was the seat of a person's modesty, being without a brow meant being immodest, or again, shameless."  [Merriam Webster's Word of the Day, 6/11/2009; www.Merriam-Webster.com])

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons