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Klingon Word of the Day: veS (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 24 Jul '25

24 Jul '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, July 24, 2025 Klingon word: veS Part of speech: noun Definition: war, warfare 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: qan (verb)
by Klingon Word of the Day 23 Jul '25

23 Jul '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, July 23, 2025 Klingon word: qan Part of speech: verb Definition: use the fourth (pinky/little finger) finger Source: HQ:v10n2p7 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: qan (verb)
by Klingon Word of the Day 22 Jul '25

22 Jul '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 22, 2025 Klingon word: qan Part of speech: verb Definition: use the fourth (pinky/little finger) finger Source: HQ:v10n2p7 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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More puns
by James Landau 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

| | | | | | | | | | After *HalSIH* and *reqnub*, I found a few more puns: SIller'It (scaffolding, exoskeleton): "trellis" backwards tImjol (scandal): *lojmIt* (gate) backwards. -gate is a libfix/burger morph for naming political scandals. ming (socialize): mingle

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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Daghtuj jaj 'oH jajvam'e'
by James Landau 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

>Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2025 15:59:57 +0000 >From: "janSIy ." <kenjutsuka(a)live.com> >To: "tlhingan-hol(a)kli.org" <tlhingan-hol(a)kli.org> >>jatlh James Landau: >>>>>I was just thinking . . . if -Daq and other such noun suffixes can appear at the end of stative verbs that follow the nouns, aren't they really clitics >instead of "noun suffixes"? >>Even without that feature, it's already arguable that the type 5 noun suffixes are clitics. They don't actually modify the noun, but rather perform a >syntactic purpose within the larger verb clause. The very title of the group and description in TKD imply that they are really clitics and not true >affixes. None-the-less, treating them as noun suffixes that follow all the other noun suffixes makes it much easier for non-linguists and keeps the >description simpler and more consistent. >>If you are asking whether a linguistic description of the features of Klingon should note that these are actually clitics, then I would accept that as >most likely true. If you are asking whether we should stop calling them suffixes when talking about them in the Klingonist community, then I give >a very forceful, "No!" That makes sense, janSIy. I guess I have a definitive answer. Meanwhile, there were two puns from the new qep'a' words that stuck out at me immediately: HalSIH (oil): *HISlaH*, the word for "yes", backwards. As in "Langue d'Oil". reqnub (sclera): "Bunker" backwards. Archie Bunker was a White supremacist. The sclera is called the "white" of your eyes.

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Klingon Word of the Day: qeQvav (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Saturday, July 19, 2025 Klingon word: qeQvav Part of speech: noun Definition: thingamajig 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: beylI' (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, July 20, 2025 Klingon word: beylI' Part of speech: noun Definition: bank Source: Talk Now! Klingon 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: beSbal moQ (noun)
by Klingon Word of the Day 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, July 21, 2025 Klingon word: beSbal moQ Part of speech: noun Definition: baseball Source: qepHom 2023 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh(a)kli.org)

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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Daghtuj jaj 'oH jajvam'e'
by James Landau 21 Jul '25

21 Jul '25

I was just thinking . . . if -Daq and other such noun suffixes can appear at the end of stative verbs that follow the nouns, aren't they really clitics instead of "noun suffixes"? >Remember that {-Daq} et al. exhibit sine other surprising behaviors (at least to this English speaker). It appears on cardinal numbers, at least in >proper names: >> nImbuS wejDaq 'ejDo' 'entepray' ngeHlu'pu' > The starship Enterprise has been dispatched to Nimbus III [ST5] >> Qo'noS wa'Daq baHta' ['entepray'] > Enterprise fired on Kronos One... [ST6] >>Also, "If a Type 5 noun suffix is used ? it follows the verb, which, when used to modify the noun in this way, can have no other suffix except the >rover {-qu'} emphatic. The Type 5 noun suffix follows {-qu'} ... {veng tInqu'Daq} ?in the very big city" [TKD p.50]. In other words, {-Daq} attaches >to the quality modifying a noun, not the noun itself. More examples: >> veng tInDaq > in the big city [TKD] >> wa' Dol nIvDaq matay'DI' maQap > We succeed together in a greater whole. [TKW] >> batlh maHeghbej 'ej yo' qIjDaq vavpu'ma' DImuv > Then we die with honor and join our fathers in the Black Fleet... [Anthem] >>If it helps, think of {qep?a? wejDIch} as the proper, official name of the qep?a? - i.e. the Third [KLI] Conference ? a sort of inseparable phrase. >>-- >Voragh

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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Daghtuj jaj 'oH jajvam'e'
by James Landau 18 Jul '25

18 Jul '25

A bit surprising, but that's what it looks like . . . I searched my email box for "wa'DIchDaq* and found a post by Michael Kounenos that uses it. And a search on the Klingonia corpus for *DIchDaq* yields 28 results, some of which are lavender (meaning they're published by the KLI). >From: Steven Boozer <sboozer(a)uchicago.edu> >To: "tlhingan-hol(a)kli.org" <tlhingan-hol(a)kli.org> >Subject: Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Daghtuj jaj 'oH jajvam'e' >Message-ID: > <SN7PR11MB80418F0997CED357D65CEBB5C151A(a)SN7PR11MB8041.namprd11.prod.outlook.com> > >Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" >>Apparently, the latter. Okrand once sent a note to SuStel: >>qep'a' wejDIchDaq jatlhtaH tlhIngan Hol HaDwI'pu'. ghoHtaH je. tIv'eghtaH je. >(MO to SuStel, st.klingon 11/1996) >>AFAIK it?s our only example of {-Daq} and the ordinal number suffix {-Dich} used together. SuStel commented: >>(SuStel 12/18/1996): ... in answering my letter about qep'a' wejDIch, Marc Okrand used the phrase qep'a' wejDIchDaq. Now, it could be >considered just a [proper] name, but it may also be possible that noun suffixes can go to the ordinal number.

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