While it’s always possible that it’s just a word made up from a combination of phonemes that had not been combined before, I could also imagine a Klingon trying to teach a child the concept of a planet’s poles by telling the child to hold up a fist. The parent then says, “That is the planet.” The parent then places one fist above the planet, palm down and one fist below, palm up, and extends the pinkie of each of these two fists, pointing towards the center of the planet… {SIq’ang} pItlh charghwI’ ‘utlh (ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)
On Dec 16, 2025, at 10:48 AM, Steven Boozer via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
AFAIK not used in a sentence.
(qepHom 2025 <https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/En/NewWordsQepHom2025>, p. 32): Informally, you can use {megh'an <https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/Megh-an>} and {'er'In <https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/-er-In>} for the two poles of a planet. More scientifically, the term for "pole" is {SIq'ang <https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/SIk-ang>}”
SEE ALSO: yuQ planet (n) qo' world (n) ghor surface (of planet) (n) ghaptal equator (n)
Quv coordinates (n) ngotrI' latitude (n) lungrI' longitude (n) ngotrI'tal parallel (n) lungrI’gal meridian (n)
The request for {SIq’ang} was: "Both north and south pole of Earth as well as north and south pole of a magnet"
ALSO FROM qepHom 2025: tuy’wI’ Dop north pole [on a magnet] (n) rem’wI’ Dop south pole [on a magnet] (n)
Den <https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/Den> attract (of a magnet) (v) [qepHom 2024) peQnagh <https://klingon.wiki/bin/view/Word/PeQnagh> magnet (n) [qepHom 2016]
-- Voragh
_________________________________________________________________________________ From: James Landau via tlhIngan-Hol Sent: Sunday, December 14, 2025 12:36 AM
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! _______________________________________________ tlhIngan-Hol mailing list tlhIngan-Hol@lists.kli.org http://lists.kli.org/listinfo.cgi/tlhingan-hol-kli.org