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Re: Klingon WOTD: Hurgh (noun)

MorphemeAddict ([email protected])

• From: [email protected]
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Hurgh (noun)
• Date: Wed, 26 Mar 2008 15:04:33 EDT

In a message dated 3/26/2008 10:14:29 AM Central Daylight Time, 
[email protected] writes:

> >Homonyms:
> >     Hurgh (verb) - be dark
> 
> Used in canon:
> 
>    Hurgh
>    It is dark. (STC:KLS)
> 
> Okrand discusses that various devices are employed when it is necessary to 
> talk about colors more precisely:
> 
> KGT 82:  Phrases containing the words {wov} ("light, bright") or {Hurgh} 
> ("dark") further refine the description of the color.  Thus, {SuD 'ej wov} 
> means "(it) is {SuD} and light," a way to refer to a yellowish tinge; {SuD 
> 'ach wov} ("{SuD} but light") is also heard.
> 
> Related verbs:
> 
> {qIj} "be black".
> 
> Antonym:  {wov} "be light, be bright".
> 

Another antonym of {Hurgh} (be dark) is {wew} (glow).

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