July 2026 - tlhIngan-Hol

Mailing List Migration and Upgrade
by qurgh lungqIj 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

Greetings all, Hopefully this message goes through successfully. If it does, it means the migration and upgrade has worked. We are now on Mailman 3 with a dedicated mailing list provider, which includes an updated archive and web interface: https://lists.kli.org/archives/list/tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org/ Both tlhIngan-hol(a)kli.org and tlhIngan-hol(a)lists.kli.org should still work for sending emails to the list, but let me know if you experience any bounced messages. Qapla'! qurgh

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Klingon Word of the Day: ra''ab (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 15 Jul '26

15 Jul '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 15, 2026 Klingon word: ra''ab Part of speech: noun Definition: market (economics) Source: qep'a' 32 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: Sut DeSwar (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 14 Jul '26

14 Jul '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 14, 2026 Klingon word: Sut DeSwar Part of speech: noun Definition: wardrobe, clothing closet Source: qep'a' 23 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Look what the cat (or gheqDarIb) dragged in.
by James Landau 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

https://klingon.wiki/En/NewWordsQepa33 And while we're on the word *gheqDarIb*, what do you suppose the pun for this raccoon-like Klingon animal is? *bIraD qegh* means "the vat/barrel, you force it" -- maybe a reference to the way raccoons force garbage cans open with their paws? Or maybe the bIraD- part is from "biradical", and has to do with bent radicals -- a reference to tie character Bentley from the eighties TV show Raccoons? (But that would leave the *gheq/qegh* part unexplained.) Some puns I figured out already: bI'lap (animal resembling a seal or sea lion): Another Beatles pun! Backwards, this is *pal'Ib* -- Paul I B = I be Paul = I am Paul. John Lennon sang that "I am" the walrus, and in "Glass Onion", the Beatles reveal that "The walrus was Paul". cha'Dot (olivine): cha' Dot = two Dots = a pair o' dots = peridot HebvIch (chert, flint): I looked up *beH*, and aside from being a suffix for "be ready to", this can also mean "rifle". A reference to flintlocks on rifles? labmIt (cicada): The tymbal is the part of the cicada that produces its loud sound. laHtlhav (opal): The make of car known as Opel in continental Europe is known as Vauxhall in the U.K. luQ (be extraverted) and luQHa' (be introverted): This pair was my request. Is the suggestion that extroverts make more "lucre" than introverts? (Unlikely, because so many of the richest people are qatru'pu'.) Or that we extroverts are "cruel" to introverts? Or just that extroverts are more likely to be "cool" (with *luq* with a lower-case q already taken for "OK, I will")? maHpagh (zeitgeist): *maH* is "ten" and *pagh* is "zero". So this is probably an allusion to the concept of decades. mu''um (palindrome): *mu'* (word) with itself turned backwards, to form a palindromic word! nItupSar (amoeba): This one stuck out at me instantly. Amoeba and Rasputin are both names of record stores in Berkeley, California. I've been to both! nIwnej (article [writing]): The genuine article. ngotol (tachyon): fotol in xifan hol, so this appears to be a reference to photo-, the Greek root for "light". Perhaps "photology"? pIq (intercept): Pick up. puH nItlh (peninsula): My other request. Not a pun, but this translates as "land finger", which was exactly the wording I used in phrasing my definition: "A finger of land that sticks out into the sea from the rest of a continent or island". qIw (pray to, implore, beseech): Weak? raj (instigate, incite, trigger, induce): Jar, as in be jarring. rer (be curious): A curiosity (using the other sense of the word "curious") is a rarity. roDnavrach (scandium): Charles van Doren was involved in a quiz show SCANDal in the 1950's. rom'IS (toy): Backwards, this is Seymour. Perhaps a reference to Seamore the Beanie Baby seal, since Beanie Babies are toys, and we also got a word for "seal, sea lion" this year. wIq'em (germanium): The Wikipedia article on germanium tells me that the element was discovered by one Clemens Winkler. 'a'lubIng (brooch): Another xifan hol pun: fibula brooch.

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Klingon Word of the Day: boq'eghwI' gher'ID (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, July 11, 2026 Klingon word: boq'eghwI' gher'ID Part of speech: noun Definition: product Source: qepHom 2025 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: tlhechwI' (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 13 Jul '26

13 Jul '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, July 13, 2026 Klingon word: tlhechwI' Part of speech: noun Definition: investigator Source: qepHom 2024 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: Soj tlhol (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 12 Jul '26

12 Jul '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, July 12, 2026 Klingon word: Soj tlhol Part of speech: noun Definition: raw, unprocessed food 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: vItlhpach (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 10 Jul '26

10 Jul '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, July 10, 2026 Klingon word: vItlhpach Part of speech: noun Definition: scalp Source: 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: nov (verb)
by Klingon Word of the Day 09 Jul '26

09 Jul '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, July 09, 2026 Klingon word: nov Part of speech: verb Definition: be foreign, be alien Source: TKD (97 KE, 134 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: 'ovjeq'IS (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 08 Jul '26

08 Jul '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 08, 2026 Klingon word: 'ovjeq'IS Part of speech: noun Definition: professional Source: qepHom 2023 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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