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Re: Klingon WOTD: Hur'Iq (noun)

QeS 'utlh ([email protected]) 

ghItlhpu' Shane MiQogh, ja':
>Hur'q (is acutally english if it is a synonym but would be spelt in klingon
>as ghurq)

I think {Hurq} would be the Klingon transliteration of the English 
pronunciation.

>would either be the same as Hur'Iq *OR* ghew (but many would argue
>the second meaning until they consider Klingons might have a prejiduce
>to bugs, but this is really unlikely, i'd go with the first one).

There's no evidence that the Hur'q were insectoid, and I don't know of 
anyone who would argue that the English term "Hur'q" is from the Klingon 
{ghew}. The English term "Hur'q" is from the Klingon term {Hur'Iq}; Okrand 
states this in KGT. ("Outside the game", Okrand probably backfit the Klingon 
term to the English/Paramount Klingon term used on Star Trek.)

>Or, of all things, it could also mean "Invader" or yotwI'.

Voragh has already pointed out that the two syllables of {Hur'Iq} mean 
"outside" and "be too much, be too many". I think that's etymologically 
significant.

QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute


not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
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