Klingon Word of the Day: Selrach (noun)
Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, November 23, 2025 Klingon word: Selrach Part of speech: noun Definition: ladder Source: qep'a' 32 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh@kli.org).
Charles Lindbergh’s infant son was kidnapped and accidentally killed when the kidnapper’s home-made ladder collapsed as the kidnapper was holding the kid, climbing down from a 2nd story window. One would hope this is not the backwards pun that created this vocabulary entry... pItlh charghwI’ ‘utlh (ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)
On Nov 23, 2025, at 10:00 AM, Klingon Word of the Day via tlhIngan-Hol <tlhingan-hol@lists.kli.org> wrote:
Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, November 23, 2025
Klingon word: Selrach Part of speech: noun Definition: ladder Source: qep'a' 32
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Klingon Word of the Day for Sunday, November 23, 2025 Klingon word: Selrach Part of speech: noun Definition: ladder Source: qep'a' 32 [2025] -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- (qep’a’ 2025): This is the general term for any type of ladder. (KGT 29): the word for stairs or stairway in most of the Empire is letlh. One type of letlh is a choghvat, the stairway leading to and from the doorway of a ship. In a couple of dialects in the Mekro'vak (meqro'vaq) region, however, letlh refers only to the stairway connected to a ship, while ngep'oS is any other kind of stairway but not one used to enter or exit a ship. SEE: Selrach vaD rope ladder (n) (qep’a’ 2025) (qep’a’ 2025): rope ladder or similar wIlHay Selrach movable [hinged, A-shaped] ladder (n) (qep’a’ 2025) (qep’a’ 2025): a movable ladder with two legs forming an A shape -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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