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

[Steven Boozer]

Klingon word: ghotI'
Part of speech: noun
Definition: fish, most general word for fish-like creature
Source: HQ:v10n4p5
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(HQ 10.4):  "the most general word for fish", of which there are several varieties 

(Lieven, 11/01/2015):  Marc told me [at qepHom 2015] the following, said with my own words:  First, a {ghotI'} is a true fish, the animal that children would draw if they hear the word "fish".  A {bIQDep} covers most animals that live in the sea.  Marc gave as possible examples "dolphins, whales, fish, octopus" but he said it's not used for shrimps or even smaller animals like water bugs.  When asked for a seal, he said that a seal or a sealion does not really live IN the water, so that's probably not a {bIQDep}.  Every {ghotI'} is a {bIQDep}, but not every {bIQDep} is a {ghotI'}.

PUN:  George Bernard Shaw's famous joke ridiculing English non-phonetic spelling: He gaves the separate sounds for /gh/, /o/ and /ti/ as a possible spelling of "fish", given that those sounds are given by those spellings - i.e. in enough, women, nation.)

SEE:
ghotI''a'  	whale (n) 
bIQDep 	fish (n)

SEE ALSO:
nIwqen 		gill (n)
mIjDang 	fin, flipper (n)
Qal  		swim (v)

SolbIS 		whale, dolphin, porpoise (n)
  - "Any fishlike creature that has to come up to breathe air" (qep'a' 2021)
Se'mon 		salmon (n)
norgh 		"type of animal, a sharklike sea creature" (n) [KGT, cf. SAREK)


TREK NOTES:
  "That is a FISH you are holding!!" (Worf to Riker, TNG "The Icarus Factor")

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons