February 2023 - tlhIngan-Hol

Klingon Word of the Day: wIlHay
by Klingon Word of the Day 23 Feb '23

23 Feb '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 21, 2023 Klingon word: wIlHay Part of speech: noun Definition: hinge (of a door), spine (of a book) Source: qepHom 2021 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: SuD
by James Landau 22 Feb '23

22 Feb '23

See also the note on expressing "be blonde" as *SuD 'ej wov* at http://www.qephom.de/book/qepHom2021_p_17.jpg >Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2023 15:35:02 +0000 >From: Steven Boozer <sboozer(a)uchicago.edu> >Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: SuD>> >Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 22, 2023 > >Klingon word: SuD >Part of speech: verb >Definition: be green, be blue, be yellow >_______________________________________________ > >SuD 'ej wov >(it) is {SuD} and light (KGT; a way to refer to a yellowish tinge) > >SuD 'ach wov >[(it) is] {SuD} but light (KGT; is also heard) > >SuD Dargh 'ej wov >The tea is {SuD} and light. (KGT) > >SuDbogh Dargh 'ej wovbogh >The tea that is {SuD} and light. (KGT) > >(KGT 81-82): Compared to Federation Standard, Klingon terminology associated with colors is rather limited. First of all, there is >no noun meaning color. There is, however, a verb, {nguv}, which means something like "be dyed, stained, tinted", though it is >seldom used except in the phrase {chay' nguv} ("How is [it] tinted?") or when suffixed with {-moH} ("cause") in the form {nguvmoH} >("dye, tint, stain"; that is, "cause to be dyed," etc.) > >(KGT 82): Various devices are employed when it is necessary to talk about colors more precisely. The suffix {-qu'} is useful as in >{Doqqu'} (red) and {SuDqu'} (green). {wov} and {Hurgh} may also modify colors as in {SuD 'ej wov} (yellow) or objects may be >compared to something else that typically has a particular color as in {Doq 'ej beqpuj rur} "(it) is {Doq} and resembles {beqpuj}" (an >orange mineral). [...] The fact that neither {SuD} nor {Doq} includes what is called violet or purple in Federation Standard may be >related to Klingon physiology--that is, exactly how the Klingon eye processes different wavelengths of light. > >(startrek.klingon 2/1998): "If the context is clear (such as contrasting a brown thing with a thing that cannot be described as {Doq}, >such as something that's {SuD} "blue, green, yellow"), {Doq} alone is good enough. Thus, if there are two drinking cups, one brown >and one blue, one might say: {HIvje' Doq qaneH} "I want the {Doq} cup" [sic! for {vIneH}]. Only the brown cup could be described >as {Doq}; the blue cup is definitely not {Doq} since it is {SuD}. > >(SuStel, 10/30/2009): Klingon has four color terms: {qIj} "be black", {SuD} "be blue, green, yellow", {chIS} "be white", and {Doq} "be >red, orange". According to the theory about color terms, yellow is always a color associated with warm colors, and blue and green >are always associated with cool colors. The Klingon verb {SuD} violates the hierarchy, and Okrand has confirmed that he did this >on purpose. It is a linguistic joke. >[see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_term ]) > >(IMO, HolQeD 8.3): There is also an idiomatic phrase which conveys the idea of jealousy: {SuD veqlargh mInDu'}. Literally, this >means "Fek'lhr's eyes are yellow/green", but it is used to express the idea that somebody is jealous. It would be used in an >exchange such as: > A: loSmaH romulusngan SuvwI'pu' HoHta' qeng. > B: SuD veqlargh mInDu'. > A: Kang killed 40 Romulan warriors. > B: Somebody is jealous! >Speaker "B" is saying that speaker "A" is jealous of Kang. > >(SuStel, 9/03/2019): My memory of the thing Okrand did intentionally was that according to Berlin-Kay, yellow tends to either have >its own word, or it is grouped with red and orange. The Klingon system groups it with blue and green, which makes sense if you >look at a spectrum and see that it is arbitrary whether it is grouped with red/orange or green/blue, but languages generally tend to >group it with red/orange. There is no technical reason why human languages group yellow with red and orange. They just do. > >(Brent Kesler, 9/04/2019): The question is where languages draw borders between colors. The HolQeD article I dimly remember >argued that grouping yellow with green/blue is so odd it's almost alien and speculated that MO knew about the Berlin-Kay >hierarchy, and had it mind when he made up the word {SuD} in 1984. > >DloraH once had a web page showing the gradations between {Doq} and {SuD} at https://65.13.120.12/tlhIngan/color.jpg but it's no >longer online. Has he moved it to another platform? > >SEE: >SuD gamble, take a chance, take a risk (v) > >(PK): {SuD} also means "take a risk", which may explain the joke: > A: Doq'a' SuvwI'pu'? > B: ghobe', SuD! > A: Are warriors red? > B: No, they are green! > >SEE ALSO: >Doq be red/orange (v) >nIl be grassy/verdant (v)

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Klingon Word of the Day: 'al'on
by Klingon Word of the Day 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, February 20, 2023 Klingon word: 'al'on Part of speech: noun Definition: glass (material) Source: qepHom 2016 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Klingon Word of the Day: gheH
by Klingon Word of the Day 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, February 18, 2023 Klingon word: gheH Part of speech: verb Definition: have a temperature of Source: qepHom 2018 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Klingon Word of the Day: Sat
by Klingon Word of the Day 20 Feb '23

20 Feb '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, February 19, 2023 Klingon word: Sat Part of speech: verb Definition: be stuck (like in a meeting) Source: qep'a' 25 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Klingon Word of the Day: QaD
by Klingon Word of the Day 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, February 16, 2023 Klingon word: QaD Part of speech: verb Definition: be dry, be dried out Source: KGT This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Klingon Word of the Day: HovQeD
by Klingon Word of the Day 17 Feb '23

17 Feb '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, February 17, 2023 Klingon word: HovQeD Part of speech: noun Definition: astronomy Source: The Little Prince This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Klingon Word of the Day: SaHa'ra'
by Klingon Word of the Day 16 Feb '23

16 Feb '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, February 14, 2023 Klingon word: SaHa'ra' Part of speech: noun Definition: Sahara (Earth desert) Source: The Little Prince This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Klingon Word of the Day: nom
by Klingon Word of the Day 15 Feb '23

15 Feb '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, February 15, 2023 Klingon word: nom Part of speech: adv Definition: fast, quickly Source: TKD (97 KE, 132 EK, 148 EK) This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Klingon Word of the Day: jargh
by Klingon Word of the Day 13 Feb '23

13 Feb '23

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, February 13, 2023 Klingon word: jargh Part of speech: noun Definition: forehead (regional) Source: KGT (217 KE, 243 EK) This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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