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Re: Klingon WOTD: ghargh (n)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ghargh (n)
• Date: Tue, 19 Oct 2004 09:27:35 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Tuesday, October 19, 2004.
>
>Klingon word:   ghargh
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     serpent, worm

As used in canon:

   <yajchu'.  ghargh... veQ>  (??)
   [Understood clearly. Worms... garbage! (untranslated)] ST3

{ghargh HIq}  "worm wine"

   pubtaHbogh ghargh HIq vItlhutlh
   I will drink boiling worm wine. PK

{'Iwghargh}  "bloodworm"

   reH HIvje'lIjDaq 'Iwghargh Datu'jaj
   May you always find a bloodworm in your glass! PK -

{reghuluS 'Iwghargh}  "Regulan bloodworm"

   tun; reghuluS 'Iwghargh rur
   soft as a Regulan bloodworm  KGT

Okrand goes into some detail in KCD on the distinction between {ghargh} - 
which refers to serpent worms as animals - and {qagh} - which refers to 
serpent worms alive but with seasonings and sauce added, served as food, 
and which is never pluralized.

"Klingons generally {Sep} (breed) small animals such as {gharghmey} 
(worms)." (KGT 89)

The {vem'eq} is "a bird that feeds almost exclusively on the serpent worm 
from which {qagh} is made (Klingons are not particularly fond of the 
{vem'eq})" (HQ 10.4)

FYI: DloraH used *{ghargh'a'} for "snake" in his _ghIlghameS: A Klingon 
Translation_ (Flourtown, Pa: KLI, 2000).



-- 
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons 

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