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Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhegh (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhegh (noun)
• Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:04:30 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, March 31, 2008.
>
>Klingon word:   tlhegh
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     line, rope

Never used in canon.

Related nouns:

{mu'tlhegh}  "sentence"

{nugh tlhegh} "society rope" (?) KCD

{vIttlhegh} "proverb"

HQ 5.1:  The usual term for "proverb" is {vIttlhegh}, literally "truth 
rope" and formed, no doubt, by analogy with {mu'tlhegh} "sentence" or, 
literally, "word rope".

Cf. also {SIrgh} "string, thread, filament" and {mIr} "chain".

Krankor uses {tlhegh} for "stanza, verse".  That's how he designates the 
three parts of the KLI anthem {taHjaj wo'} which are all sung at the same 
time, in counterpoint:  {tlhegh wa'DIch} is the "main verse", {tlhegh 
cha'DIch} is the "answer back", and {tlhegh wejDIch} kind of runs all 
through.  The lyrics are reprinted in HQ 2.3.



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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