tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Feb 14 08:40:47 2008

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing

• Index by Date
• Index by Thread
• Index by Author

Re: Klingon WOTD: ghoj (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: ghoj (verb)
• Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2008 10:33:08 -0600
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
• References: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Thursday, February 14, 2008.
>
>Klingon word:   ghoj
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition:     learn

Used in canon:

   qa'vam yuQ Quv DaghojmeH Duyma'vaD yIjatlh.
   [To learn the Genesis Planet's coordinates, speak to our agent.]
   (untranslated on ST3 DVD case)

Related verbs:

{ghojmoH} "teach, instruct"

   batlh qaghojmoHpu'
   It has been an honor to instruct you. CK

   batlh qaghojmoH
   It has been an honor to instruct you. PK

{HaD} "study" and {Qul} "research"

Related nouns:

{ghojmeH taj}  "boy's knife" (lit. "knife for learning").  Cf. KCD.

{ghojmoq}  *ghojmok* ("nurse, nanny, governess").  Kahlest was young Worf's 
*ghojmok* on Khitomer. (TNG "Sins of the Father")

{ghojwI'}  "student"

   ghojwI'pu'lI' tISaH
   Care about your students. TKW

*{ghojmoHwI'}  "teacher", "mentor" (vetted by Okrand in Keith R.A. 
DeCandido's novel "Diplomatic Implausibility"?)

Cf. also {paQDI'norgh} "teachings" and {Qul} "research".



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

• References:
  • Klingon WOTD: ghoj (verb)
    • From: [email protected]

• Prev by Date: Let's bet that my instrument is bigger than your
• Next by Date: Klingon WOTD: wa' (number)
• Previous by thread: Klingon WOTD: ghoj (verb)
• Next by thread: Huge Jackpot! Play and pull of!
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread
  • Author

Back to archive top level