tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 23 07:06:33 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: nughI' (verb)
> >> Klingon word: nughI'
> >> Part of Speech: verb
> >> Definition: twist knuckle into someone's' head
naHQun:
> > I'm assuming this has never been used in canon?
ghunchu'wI':
>Better -- it was used in *person*.
ghunchu'wI' himself wrote some time ago:
This is one of the very few times we have had the good fortune
to pin down the meaning of a word precisely. At qep'a' wejDIch,
we literally got the word straight from Marc Okrand's mouth.
He verified the pronunciation, spelling, and usage for us.
{qanughI'} is perfectly correct for "I give you a noogie."
{nunughI'} is a valid word. [...] It's obviously a borrowed term.
Okrand expressed uncertainty about whether the Klingon word was
borrowed from English, or whether it was the other way around.
SuStel provided more details:
SuSvaj happened to be sitting next to Okrand at qep'a' wejDIch
when everyone was socializing and horsing around. While someone
was giving a noogie to a hapless victim, Krankor jokingly said
"We really should have a word for 'noogie'." So SuSvaj asked
Okrand, what the Klingon word for 'noogie' was. He replied,
"Well that would be {nughI'}." Asked if this was borrowed from
English, he said that he was fairly certain that the English
word had actually been borrowed from {tlhIngan Hol}! "He
suggested that some word-borrowing was going on, and I think
he said he wasn't sure which culture had borrowed from which.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons