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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: Hugh

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Mon May 14 09:55:54 2012

From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Mon, 14 May 2012 13:55:43 +0000
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> Klingon word:   Hugh
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition:     throat

Used in canon:

qaStaHvIS wa' ram loS SaD Hugh SIjlaH qetbogh loD 
4,000 throats may be cut in one night by a running man. TKD

Note the idiom: {Hugh SIj} "cut (lit. "slit, slash") [someone's] throat"

Related words:

mong 	neck (n)
nuj 		mouth (n)
lev 		roof of mouth, hard palate (n)
jat		tongue (n)

ghup 	swallow (v)

--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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