Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, April 30, 2021 Klingon word: turmIq Part of speech: noun Definition: urine Source: qep'a' 23 This Klingon Word of the Day is brought to you by qurgh (qurgh@kli.org).
Klingon word: turmIq Part of speech: noun Definition: urine Source: qep'a' 23 [2016] _______________________________________________ (Kauderwelsch Klingonisch, p.109: in re “going to the bathroom”): {taQbang ghIm} is the basic structure. You can, of course, substitute {turmIq} or {qeQ} in for {taQbang} if that's what you really want to say. So you can say things like {DaH jImej. turmIq vIghImnIS.} Maltz said Klingons don't have euphemisms for this sort of thing. On the other hand, there is a slang expression or idiom that's used from time to time, though mostly (but hardly always) by or to kids: {qIvon belmoH} (as in {DaH jImej. qIvonwIj vIbelnISmoH} and the like). You might ask a child who's a little jittery belHa''a' qIvonlIj?. Most people say qIvon, though some say qIvonDu'. Maltz says he has no idea why this expression has this slang meaning, given what he knows about his own {qIvonDu'}. As with idioms in general, you can't substitute one word for another (unless you're playing word games). So saying something like {qIvonwIj vIQuchnISmoH} could only refer to making your {qIvon} happy, assuming it's possible to do such a thing. PUN: "micturate" backwards (a synonym for urinate) SEE: turmIq 'enDeq urinary bladder (n) (qepHom 2018) (Lieven, 11/19/2018): … when I asked whether this bladder could be used with technical things (like air bladder), he agreed. So {'enDeq} is a bladder in general and the {turmIq 'enDeq} is "urinary bladder". From this, I'm sure that {HuH 'enDeq} [gall bladder] is understandable even if we don't know whether Klingons would call it like that. SEE ALSO: 'enDeq bladder (n) (Lieven, qepHom 2018): Strictly, the noun {'enDeq} refers to anatomy, but it can be used metaphorically in other contexts, which is the way it works in English. puchpa' washroom, bathroom, toilet (n) taQbang urine, fecal matter (n. slang) (qep'a' 2016) qeQ fecal matter (n) (qep'a' 2016) vuj expel, eject (v) For those who missed it: "Kauderwelsch-Band 250: Klingonisch - Wort für Wort" by Lieven L. Lietaer (Bielefeld : Reise Know-How Verlag, 2019) See http://klingonisch.net/kauderwelsch/ and http://klingon.wiki/De/Kauderwelsch for more information (auf deutsch natürlich!). -- 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.
Am 30.04.2021 um 18:17 schrieb Steven Boozer:
For those who missed it: "Kauderwelsch-Band 250: Klingonisch - Wort für Wort" by Lieven L. Lietaer (Bielefeld : Reise Know-How Verlag, 2019) Seehttp://klingonisch.net/kauderwelsch/ andhttp://klingon.wiki/De/Kauderwelsch for more information (auf deutsch natürlich!).
The Klingon Language Wiki has that information in English as well: http://klingon.wiki/En/Kauderwelsch -- Lieven L. Litaer aka the "Klingon Teacher from Germany" http://www.tlhInganHol.com http://klingon.wiki/En/KlingonLanguageWiki PS: My request for assistance is still existing.
Awwww… And I thought it was because it’s the same color as turmeric. charghwI’ ‘utlh (ghaH, ghaH, -Daj)
On Apr 30, 2021, at 12:17 PM, Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu> wrote:
Klingon word: turmIq Part of speech: noun Definition: urine Source: qep'a' 23 [2016] _______________________________________________
(Kauderwelsch Klingonisch, p.109: in re “going to the bathroom”): {taQbang ghIm} is the basic structure. You can, of course, substitute {turmIq} or {qeQ} in for {taQbang} if that's what you really want to say. So you can say things like {DaH jImej. turmIq vIghImnIS.} Maltz said Klingons don't have euphemisms for this sort of thing. On the other hand, there is a slang expression or idiom that's used from time to time, though mostly (but hardly always) by or to kids: {qIvon belmoH} (as in {DaH jImej. qIvonwIj vIbelnISmoH} and the like). You might ask a child who's a little jittery belHa''a' qIvonlIj?. Most people say qIvon, though some say qIvonDu'. Maltz says he has no idea why this expression has this slang meaning, given what he knows about his own {qIvonDu'}. As with idioms in general, you can't substitute one word for another (unless you're playing word games). So saying something like {qIvonwIj vIQuchnISmoH} could only refer to making your {qIvon} happy, assuming it's possible to do such a thing.
PUN: "micturate" backwards (a synonym for urinate)
SEE: turmIq 'enDeq urinary bladder (n) (qepHom 2018)
(Lieven, 11/19/2018): … when I asked whether this bladder could be used with technical things (like air bladder), he agreed. So {'enDeq} is a bladder in general and the {turmIq 'enDeq} is "urinary bladder". From this, I'm sure that {HuH 'enDeq} [gall bladder] is understandable even if we don't know whether Klingons would call it like that.
SEE ALSO: 'enDeq bladder (n)
(Lieven, qepHom 2018): Strictly, the noun {'enDeq} refers to anatomy, but it can be used metaphorically in other contexts, which is the way it works in English.
puchpa' washroom, bathroom, toilet (n) taQbang urine, fecal matter (n. slang) (qep'a' 2016) qeQ fecal matter (n) (qep'a' 2016) vuj expel, eject (v)
For those who missed it: "Kauderwelsch-Band 250: Klingonisch - Wort für Wort" by Lieven L. Lietaer (Bielefeld : Reise Know-How Verlag, 2019) See http://klingonisch.net/kauderwelsch/ and http://klingon.wiki/De/Kauderwelsch for more information (auf deutsch natürlich!).
-- 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.
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