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Re: Klingon WOTD: boD (n-body)

Steven Boozer ([email protected]) [KLI Member] 


>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, February 12, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   boD
>Part of Speech: body part noun
>Definition:     forehead
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT.  (regional).  See also {'aQlo'}, {Huy'Dung}, {jargh}, {mIQ}, 
>{no''och}, {Quch}, and {tuqvol}.

   The standard word for this prominent part of Klingon anatomy
   is {Quch}, and this word is found with this meaning throughout
   the Empire. In addition, however, practically every dialect
   has its own alternate word for "forehead". Indeed, {Quch} is
   simply the word for "forehead" in the First City. Among these
   other forms are: {boD}, {jargh}, {mIQ}, {'aQlo'}, {Huy'Dung},
   {tuqvol}, {no''och}. While the first four of these words are
   simply regionalisms for "forehead", the last three can be
   analyzed, at least partially. {Huy'Dung} is probably from {Huy'
   Dung} ("above the eyebrow[s]"). The word {tuqvol} may contain
   the word {tuq} ("house [lineage]") because family resemblances
   can be seen in forehead ridges. The second element, {vol},
   however, is otherwise unknown. Similarly, the first syllable
   of {no''och} may derive from {no'} ("ancestors"), again suggest-
   ing something about genealogy. The second syllable, {'och},
   probably resembles {'och} ("tunnel") only accidentally; there
   is no reason to think that "ancestors' tunnel" is a way to say
   "forehead."  [KGT 28f.]

Unfortunately, there was no indication of which region each word is used in.




-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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