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Klingon Word of the Day: varqo'eng (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 28 Jun '26

28 Jun '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, June 28, 2026 Klingon word: varqo'eng Part of speech: noun Definition: polynomial expression Source: qep'a' 30 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: woSwa' (noun)
by James Landau 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

You're welcome. Basically the reason we got two words for armadillo-like animals is that a word for "armadillo", and by extension "pillbug", was needed when Lieven L. Litaer was translating _Alice in Wonderland_, so Marc Okrand gave us *woSwa* . . . meanwhile, there was already a request for a Klingon xenarthran animal that had been brewing for some time at the chabal tetlh. Except this was an animal that resembled an armadillo, an anteater, and a sloth all in one. That qep'a' came later that same year, as I recall, and in his description, Okrand said a *tlhuHtuch* resembled an armadillo quite a lot, an anteater or sloth considerably less. Personally, I always thought "armadillo", "anteater", and "sloth" should be separate requests. It's obvious that a bee and wasp are related, since they're both stinging social insects with orange/yellow and black stripes, and it's obvious that a deer and moose are related, since they're both ruminants with antlers, along with the same basic body form. And the words for "octopus" and "squid" are the same in some languages (like Hawaiian, I think). They both have rubbery bodies with eight tentacles and a head. It's NOT obvious that an armadillo, anteater, and sloth are related just by looking at them. I personally had no idea the three were grouped together in an order called Xenarthra until I was 14 and studied taxonomy. When Klingons developed their proto-Klingon words for the equivalent animals on Kronos, they probably didn't know the three were related either. >From: Steven Boozer <sboozer(a)uchicago.edu> > >Thank, I didn't know about this one. > > >(https://klingon.wiki/En/NewWordsQepa30) > ?[anteater, sloth, armadillo] These are, of course, Terran animals. There is, however, a Klingon creature that more or less looks like an >armadillo (though not so much like the others) called a {tlhuHtuch}.?

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Klingon Word of the Day: yo (verb)
by Klingon Word of the Day 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, June 26, 2026 Klingon word: yo Part of speech: verb Definition: slap, hit with palm Source: qep'a' 27 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: woSwa' (noun)
by James Landau 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

There's also the other armadillo-like animal, the *tlhuHtuch*. >From: Steven Boozer <sboozer(a)uchicago.edu> >To: "tlhingan-hol(a)kli.org" <tlhingan-hol(a)kli.org> >Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: woSwa' (noun) >Message-ID: <SN7PR11MB804105EEABD139B5A240F03AC1ED2(a)SN7PR11MB8041.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > >Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 24, 2026 > >Klingon word: woSwa' >Part of speech: noun >Definition: armadillo-like animal, hedgehog-like animal >Source: QelIS boqHarmey [Klingon Alice] > > _______________________________________________ > >(Alice p.238-39): As it turns out, there's a Klingon animal that does roll itself up into a ball when in danger (that is, it pretends to be >dead or inanimate or something). It's called a {woSwa'}. There's also a bug that does the same thing, and it's called a {woSwa' ghew}, >suggesting that the rolling-up characteristic of the {woSwa'} is one of its defining features. > >(Lieven, 12/01/2021): In the original version, Alice plays a round of Croquet with hedgehogs as balls. In the Klingon version, those are >{woSwa'mey}, animals that can roll up to balls, but they are not hedgehogs. They are more like armadillos. The discussion about this >word came when I tried to distinguish the mouse from the hedgehogs. I first thought of using {Qa'Hom} for the mouse, but then realized >that a) a titmouse is not a mouse, and b) according to KCD, it looks like a hedgehog. As this might have caused confusion, Maltz told >me about the {woSwa'} and the {lIS'ab}. > >SEE: > >Qoqe' croquet (Earth game) (n) (Klingon Alice) >neSngech dormouse-like animal (n) (Klingon Alice) >lIS'ab rodent (n) > - "This animal is more rat-sized than mouse-sized, but a {vIghro'} might well chase it. >Its face kind of resembles that of a bat (though a bat is not a rodent)." [qep'a' 2021] > >SEE ALSO: >tetlh roll ("down a hill like a log") (v) > >De'vID: Can {ron} ["roll, bank, be rolling"] be used for people, such as in martial arts or >gymnastics? >Okrand: Yes... IF it means that the person is rolling haphazardly. If the person is doing a >somersault (rolling forwards or backwards in a reasonably controlled manner), the verb>is {Hay}. If the person is rolling down a hill as if he/she were a log, the verb is {tetlh} >(related to the noun meaning "scroll," though it's not used for scrolls... unless a scroll is >rolling down a hill)." [De'vID & Okrand, 3/01/2019]

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Klingon Word of the Day: qoS (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 26 Jun '26

26 Jun '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, June 26, 2026 Klingon word: qoS Part of speech: noun Definition: birthday 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: qoS (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 25 Jun '26

25 Jun '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, June 25, 2026 Klingon word: qoS Part of speech: noun Definition: birthday 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: woSwa' (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 24 Jun '26

24 Jun '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, June 24, 2026 Klingon word: woSwa' Part of speech: noun Definition: armadillo-like animal, hedgehog-like animal Source: QelIS boqHarmey 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: wot tam (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 23 Jun '26

23 Jun '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, June 21, 2026 Klingon word: wot tam Part of speech: noun Definition: verb that can be used adjectivally Source: qep'a' 29 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: gho''ong Ho'DoS (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 23 Jun '26

23 Jun '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, June 20, 2026 Klingon word: gho''ong Ho'DoS Part of speech: noun Definition: magic (trick) technique Source: qep'a' 27 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: 'ev (verb)
by Klingon Word of the Day 23 Jun '26

23 Jun '26

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, June 23, 2026 Klingon word: 'ev Part of speech: verb Definition: applaud Source: qep'a' 27 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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