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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: QIncha'
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Thu Aug 27 10:57:09 2015
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 14:56:55 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Thursday, August 27, 2015
>
> Klingon word: QIncha'
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: /Krincha/, type of animal
> Source: Email from ghunchu'wI' to the KLI's email discussion group on 22
> August 2011
ghunchu'wI' (8/2011): The English accompanying the opera said "Krincha, short and fierce". I found references to a "Krencha" in several places, including the KLI's Extended Corpus Project and the Memory Beta wiki. It is described as a large, quick lizard native to Qo'noS, variously said to have either four or six legs. I suspect that the opera's author intended to invoke that animal but misspelled its name.
Apparently it's called a *krencha* in William Shatner's novel, "The Return". (Cf. http://memory-beta.wikia.com/wiki/Krencha )
KCD: Although {lung} is translated as lizard, it actually can refer to any animal of that general shape, such as a newt or salamander.
SEE ALSO:
ghISDen scales (n)
tlhuQ tail (n)
pach claw (n)
QIm egg (n)
pel'aQ shell (n)
Duran lung Durani lizard (n)
toqvIr lung Tokvirian skink (n)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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