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Re: [tlhIngan Hol] Klingon Word of the Day: qorgh
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jan 17 09:22:14 2017
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2017 14:22:09 +0000
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> Klingon Word of the Day for Monday, January 16, 2017
>
> Klingon word: qorgh
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: to stop up, fill up a hole
> Source: qepHom 2013
(MO interviewed by Lieven, 11/12/2013): {qorgh} is to "stop up, to fill a hole". You can stop up a hole, but not fill it in with dirt. That would be {teb}. {qorgh} is to stop up an opening somehow. It's like filling in, and not put stuff inside. So the word for the cork is a {qorghwI'}.
PUN: cork
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