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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: por
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Boozer)
Tue Jul 23 11:01:36 2013
From: Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>
To: "tlhingan-hol@kli.org" <tlhingan-hol@kli.org>
Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 15:01:13 +0000
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> >> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, July 23, 2013
> >>
> >> Klingon word: por
> >> Part of speech: noun
> >> Definition: leaf (of a plant)
Voragh:
>> KGT 88: a thistle (a flower with dangerously sharp leaves) is a
>> {naHjej} (literally, "sharp fruit")
quljIb:
> So would the "leaf" of a succulent like a cactus or aloe plant be
> called a {porjej} or {por jej}?
Rather than coin a non-canon word that you'd have to explain (before the inevitable complaint), I would go for the descriptive {por jej}. Another useful word WRT to cacti is {DuQwI'}:
moQDaq DuQwI'Hommey jej tu'lu'
A brutally spiked pommel fastens the hilt together. SP2
KGT 61: A spike is a {DuQwI'} and the small spikes on the d'k tahg are usually called {DuQwI'Hommey} ("little spikes").
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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