Am 30.01.2018 um 10:51 schrieb mayqel qunenoS:
I don't understand.
{wovtaHghach} means "light" only, or does it also mean "luminescence, illumination" as well ?
Neither of them. You can analyze it literally as "brightness". When Captain Lorca says "the light hurts my eyes", he is referring to the light being bright. Late at night for instance, there still is light, but it's not very bright. It's okay then. So he is not allergic to the light itself, on the bright light. Taken literal, the word {wovtaHghach} could even refer to the intensity of a color. The term {tamghay} is defined as "light, luminescence, illumination". This one is the real "light", the thing emitted by a lamp, or the sun. And I'm sure you can even combine those two: {tamghay wovtaHghach} "the brightness of the light". Maybe this last shows the difference. -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.klingonisch.de http://www.klingonwiki.net/En/StarTrekDiscovery