Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, December 24, 2020 Klingon word: 'echletHom Part of speech: noun Definition: card Source: Klingon Monopoly, published 1 November 2011 _______________________________________________ CHANCE 'echletHommey COMMUNITY CHEST 'echletHommey je qa' quv 'echletHommey vIq 'echletHommey je COMBAT and HONOR cards replace Chance and Community Chest cards. (MKE ) cha'maH chorgh yer ghajwI' chaw' 'echletHommey, wa'maH jav quv 'echletHommey, wa'maH jav vIq 'echletHommey... 28 Title Deed cards, 16 COMBAT cards, 16 HONOR cards... (MKE contents list) 'echletHom Dopvam yIcha' card must be turned this side up (MKE) jopDI’ ’ovwI’ veb, ’echletHom tlhap When the next player takes his/her turn, he/she takes a card. (qep’a’ 2020) (Lieven < MO, 12/02/2018): {teSra'} is a piece of a puzzle or a Scrabble game and so on. The difference to the {'echletHom} is basically that a playing card is bendable while a {teSra'} is hard. (De'vID < MO, 11/16/2014): Maltz said the card games he’d seen on Earth were all new to him and didn’t match up with any Klingon games he was familiar with. Nevertheless, he’d become rather fond of one game, which he calls {’urghwI’} ("one that jabs or pokes"), a name he made up based on what he thought the Federation Standard name of the game was (but other Klingons probably would not understand this word in this sense). SEE: ‘echletHom vey deck of cards (n) QIn 'echletHom postcard (n) SEE ALSO: 'echlet board, pad (n) Quj 'echlet game board (n) pe'meH ‘echlet cutting board (n) QongDaq ‘echlet tun mattress (n) rItlh 'echlet ink pad (n) nItlh 'echlet computer keyboard (n) 'eQway’ ‘echlet mouse pad (n) 'echlet Hab touchpad (computer) (n) Use {DuD} "mix, stir" for shuffling a deck of cards? -- Voragh, Ca'Non Master of the Klingons Please contribute relevant vocabulary from the last year or two. I’ve fallen behind in updating my files and adding cross-references for related words.