Klingon word: tlhoy' Part of speech: noun Definition: wall, interior wall, interior face of exterior wall, territorial wall Source: SKNG:07DEC1998 _______________________________________________ leD rav tlhoy' je the floor and the wall are perpendicular (to each other) (qepHom 2014) (st.k 12/07/1998): An interior wall (such as a wall separating your living room from your kitchen) is a {tlhoy'}. An exterior wall (that is, a wall which separates the inside of a building from the outside) is a {reD}. For the interior side of an exterior wall, it is quite common to use {tlhoy'}, but the phrase {pa' reD}, literally "room's exterior wall" ({pa'} "room") is also heard, referring to the wall in a room which faces outside (as opposed to the other walls in the room whose other sides are still indoors). The wall around a city is a {yergho}, which is apparently derived from {yer} "domain, holdings, territory" plus {gho} "circle." A wall which divides a territory into parts (such as the Berlin Wall) is also called a {tlhoy'}, even though neither side of it is the interior of a structure. On occasion, for clarity, such a wall is termed a {chevwI' tlhoy'} "separator wall") or a {pIn tlhoy'}, literally "boss wall," presumably dating back to a time when each subterritory had a specific person in charge. The phrase {pa' tlhoy'} "room's interior wall" is also heard from time to time, but usually only when it is necessary to distinguish the "interior wall" sense of {tlhoy'} from the "separator wall" sense. A {tlhoy'} "interior wall" need not be vertical. In a multistory structure, the stories are separated by what Klingon architects and builders call a {tlhoy' SaS} "horizontal wall". The side of this "wall" which is the bottom of the upper story is the {rav} "floor"; the side which is the top of the lower story is the {rav'eq} "ceiling" (based on {rav} "floor" plus {'eq}, an element otherwise unknown (there is no evidence it is connected to {'eq} "be early"). TREK NOTES: After boarding the Klingon ship Somraw in 2151, Hoshi says that *ka'tahl* can mean wall, barrier or hull. [ENT "Sleeping Targs"[ SEE ALSO: Som hull (n) tajvaj corner of room (n) veH tIn Great Barrier (GN) pa' beb ceiling (n) beb roof (n) -- Voragh Ca'Non Master of the Klingons