Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, November 19, 2020 Klingon word: toDSaH Part of speech: excl Definition: (curse) epithet, insult Source: _______________________________________________ I don't have TKD with me but I imagine it's from the Addendum. Can someone check? (CK): This is something one Klingon would call another if they weren't on the best of terms. (Keith R.A. DeCandido's 2001 novel "Diplomatic Implausibility"): Insult with no direct translation. Spelled *tohzah* in the ST Encyclopedia [1994]. {toDSaH} was first heard in TNG "The Defector", where verteran Trek actor James Sloyan pronounced it /to-ZAH/: Defecting Romulan General Alidar Jarok sees Worf in Enterprise's sick bay and asks Riker, "Tell me, how do you allow this Klingon *pahtk* to walk around in a Starfleet uniform?" Worf grunts something threatening and Jarok replies, "Get this *tohzah* out of my sight!" Riker comments smugly that "only a *veruul*" would say that, thus trumping Jarok's knowledge of Klingon curses with his own knowledge of Romulan. Jarok was amused. (TNG "The Defector") You taught me language; and my profit on’t Is, I know how to curse. (Caliban, "The Tempest") For the last decade or so I haven't kept up with my Klingon cursing. Does anyone know what Okrand might have said - perhaps in passing - about the various {mu'qaDmey}? -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons