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Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhegh (n)

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

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, October 15, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   tlhegh
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     line, rope

Never used in a canon sentence.

{tlhegh} appears in {mu'tlhegh} "sentence" and {vIttlhegh} 
"proverb".  Okrand comments:

   The usual term for "proverb" is {vIttlhegh}, literally "truth rope"
   and formed, no doubt, by analogy with {mu'tlhegh} "sentence" or,
   literally, "word rope".  (HQ 5.1)

Krankor uses {tlhegh} for "stanza, verse".  I'm told that Krankor's Klingon 
anthem {taHjaj wo'} consists of three sections, all sung at the same time 
in counterpoint.  {tlhegh wa'DIch} is the "main verse," {tlhegh cha'DIch} 
is the "answer back," and {tlhegh wejDIch} kind of runs all through.  The 
lyrics are reprinted in HQ 2.3.

{nugh tlhegh} ("society line"?) appears in the KCD novelization:

   "Pok has yet to complete the Second Rite of Ascension. In the eyes of
    the {nugh tlhegh} he is still a boy."

Perhaps "in the eyes of other people" or "high society"?  (Pok - like Worf 
- comes from an important, upper class family.)  This could also refer to 
the six painstik-wielding warriors who form the gauntlet (or "River of 
Pain") for a young Klingon during his {nentay} which IIRC is also seen in 
KCD.  (Does this phrase appear in the actual game?)

Useful verbs to use with {tlheghmey} are {bagh} "tie" and {rar} "connect, 
attach".

Cf. also the nouns {SIrgh} "string, thread, filament" and {mIr} "chain".



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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