December 2025 - tlhIngan-Hol

Klingon Word of the Day: tutlh (verb)
by Klingon Word of the Day 22 Dec '25

22 Dec '25

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 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: nIyma' (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 22 Dec '25

22 Dec '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, December 21, 2025 Klingon word: nIyma' Part of speech: noun Definition: phantom, apparition, something that appears to be there but is not Source: qepHom'a' Soch 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: Sa (verb)
by Klingon Word of the Day 22 Dec '25

22 Dec '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, December 22, 2025 Klingon word: Sa Part of speech: verb Definition: rhyme with Source: qep'a' 26 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: ghalmov (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, December 19, 2025 Klingon word: ghalmov Part of speech: noun Definition: compound (chemical) Source: qep'a' 28 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: 'eng (noun)
by l.cp＠web.de 19 Dec '25

19 Dec '25

Thank you for your answers! I was asking because, at least in Spanish or German, we always say "the clouds are hiding the sky", even though it is just a "mass" of clouds in which you cannot distinguish one from the other. And I wanted to know if Klingon works this way or there is another explanation. Maybe it's just as Lieven or ghunchu'wI' said: Klingons think of clouds as an "entity" or something like the word "rock". Or the sentence really means only one cloud, as charghwI' says. Perhaps there is someday a clarification.

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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: 'eng (noun)
by l.cp＠web.de 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

Shouldn't these sentences have the prefix *lu-*, since we are speaking of "clouds" (plural)? Or is it a "weather exception"? --- Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. Dezember 2025 um 16:33 Von: "Klingon Word via tlhIngan-Hol" <tlhingan-hol(a)lists.kli.org> An: tlhingan-hol(a)kli.org CC: "Klingon Word" <kwotd(a)wizage.net> Betreff: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: 'eng (noun) It was in the booklet for qep'a' 23 in 2016. https://www.kli.org/about-klingon/new-language-information/qepa-chamah-wejd… has the page. Its the section on seasons. qurgh On Wed, Dec 17, 2025, 10:26 AM Lieven L. Litaer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol(a)lists.kli.org> wrote: I'd like to have my notes correct, so please help: According to my notes, the phrase below was explained at qep'a' 2017, not 2016. But when I checked my own lists, I couldn't find that information on either list. Any websearch isn't helpful either. So where did it come from? Am 16.12.2025 um 17:34 schrieb Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol: > (qurgh < Okrand, qep'a' 2016): For a cloudy day, he used {jul So' 'eng} ("clouds hide the sun") or {jul tlhoDmoH 'eng} ("clouds filter the sun") ... depending on just how cloudy things are. > > wa'Hu' jul So'mo' 'eng... > Because it was (pretty) cloudy yesterday... > (lit. "Because yesterday clouds hid the sun...") (qep'a' 2016) -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" https://tlhInganHol.com https://klingon.wiki/En/AliceInWonderland _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol(a)lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol(a)lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org

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Klingon Word of the Day: 'eng (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, December 16, 2025 Klingon word: 'eng Part of speech: noun Definition: cloud Source: TKD 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: Surma' (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 18 Dec '25

18 Dec '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, December 18, 2025 Klingon word: Surma' Part of speech: noun Definition: force (physics concept) Source: qep'a' 26 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Ooh la la, a pun!
by James Landau 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

I just deciphered my first pun of the 2025 qepHom: At first, I puzzled over *SIq'ang*, the word for the pole of a planet. Nothing forward comes to mind. So let's look at it backwards: *nga'qIS*. There is no word that's just plain *nga'*, at least not in canon. But I realized that *nga'chuq* is "have sex". And *qIS* has a similar meaning: "be libidinous". Then it hit me: it's a reference to _Tropic of Cancer, Tropic of Capricorn_ by Henry Miller!

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Klingon Word of the Day: baHwI' (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 17 Dec '25

17 Dec '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, December 17, 2025 Klingon word: baHwI' Part of speech: noun Definition: gunner Source: TKD This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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