Here's a question: Since the implied subject of weather words is usually muD (or sometimes maybe chal for precipitation and the like), how would you all interpret vungwI'?

Would you read it as the noun "hurricane", as in the part of the atmosphere that's hurricaning, considered as a single system? (So you could perhaps say something like FloridaDaq ghoSlI' 'Irma' vungwI' "Hurricane Irma is approaching Florida", with the assumption that "hurricane" is treated like a rank or title.)

Or would it be taken to mean something less specific or useful, like "the atmosphere as a whole, which happens to be hurricaning somewhere", assuming it means anything at all?

On Fri, Sep 29, 2017 at 11:48 AM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:

Klingon word: vung
Part of speech: verb
Definition: cyclone, hurricane
Source: qep'a' 24 [2017]
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"storm like a hurricane/cyclone"

SEE ALSO:
jev             storm (v)
SIS             rain (v)
cheq            storm like a tornado, tornado (v)
ver             be spiral (v)

(qurgh < MO, qep'a' 2017):  You can also say {ver SuS'a'} "a tornado happens" (literally: "the big wind spirals").  {ver SuS} (or {ver SuSHom}) would most likely refer to a whirlwind.

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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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