Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, November 21, 2023 Klingon word: togh Part of speech: verb Definition: count _______________________________________________ cha' vI' vagh choQmey lutoghlu' Number of Decks: 2.5. (KBoP) (KGT 72-73): As is well documented, the Klingon counting system was originally a ternary system (one based on three, with numbers higher than three formed from the words for one, two, and three). Later, owing to outside influences, it changed to a decimal system (based on ten). The independent words for the numbers three through nine were not originally a part of the Klingon counting system, but they had to come from somewhere. The musical scale is the likely source. The word for the fourth musical tone, {loS}, began to be used for the number four, and so on through the eighth tone, {chorgh}. (The origins of the words {Hut} [nine] and the suffix {-maH}, used in the words for ten, twenty, thirty, and so on, are obscure.) (TKD): Counting proceeded as follows: 1, 2, 3; 3+1, 3+2, 3+3; 2×3+1, 2×3+2, 2×3+3; 3×3+1, 3×3+2, 3×3+3; and then it got complicated. The idioms {wa'maH wej} and {wa’ wa’ wa’} meaning "it's complicated" is a reference to the archaic ternary-ish counting system. [De'vID, qepHom 2014] (KGT 178): The suffix {-logh}, when attached to numbers, is used to count the number of instances of something: {wa'logh} ("once"), {cha'logh} ("twice"), {vaghlogh} ("five times"). SEE ALSO: SIm calculate (v) chel add (v) mI’ number (n) mI’ mob odd number (n) mI’ mobHa' even number (n) mI' poj statistics (i.e. tally) (n) mI' tej mathematician (n) [N.B. two words] mI'QeD mathematics (n) -- Voragh, Ca'Non Master of the Klingons Please contribute relevant vocabulary from recent qep’a’mey or qepHommey. I’ve fallen woefully behind in updating my files.