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Re: Klingon WOTD: Hurgh (noun)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Wed Mar 26 11:14:07 2008
Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 10:11:45 -0500
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From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, March 26, 2008.
>
>Klingon word: Hurgh
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: pickle (cucumber) [picked {peb'ot}]
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 93. It is also not unusual to {HaH} ("marinate") or {roghmoH}
>("ferment") various sorts of {naH} ("fruit, vegetable"). One common dish
>is a torpedo-shaped fruit called {peb'ot}, which is soaked in a {chanDoq}
>("marinade"). The fully marinated {peb'ot} is called {Hurgh}.
Never used in canon.
>Homonyms:
> Hurgh (verb) - be dark
Used in canon:
Hurgh
It is dark. (STC:KLS)
Okrand discusses that various devices are employed when it is necessary to
talk about colors more precisely:
KGT 82: Phrases containing the words {wov} ("light, bright") or {Hurgh}
("dark") further refine the description of the color. Thus, {SuD 'ej wov}
means "(it) is {SuD} and light," a way to refer to a yellowish tinge; {SuD
'ach wov} ("{SuD} but light") is also heard.
Related verbs:
{qIj} "be black".
Antonym: {wov} "be light, be bright".
Related nouns:
{QIb} "shadow"
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
