tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Feb 08 08:10:56 2012
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: bergh
> Klingon word: bergh
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be irritable
> From: Felix Malmenbeck [mailto:[email protected]]
>
> Interestingly, according to KGT berghmoH means "to irritate",
> suggesting that perhaps the gloss for bergh should perhaps be "be
> irritated, irritable".
{bergh] was only used once - on ST:Continuum's "Klingon Linguistic Studies" page - unhelpfully:
bIbergh
You are irritable. KLS
> Of course, there's already a fairly thin line between irritation and
> irritability. One means you're easily provoked, the other that you're
> easily provoked into being easily provoked.
> [Dictionaries may disagree with me, but that's their loss.]
Okrand does go into the idea a bit more in KGT:
KGT 167: [{yIv}] literally means "chew". In its slang sense, it is found in such constructions as {choyIv} ("You bother me"--literally, "You chew me") or {muyIv romuluS Ha'DIbaH} ("The Romulan dog irks me"; literally, "The Romulan animal chews me," where Romulan animal is a derogatory way to refer to a Romulan). [...] Standard ways to express the same idea are {nuQ} (annoy, bother) and {berghmoH} (irritate).
Related verbs include {bIt} "be nervous/uneasy", {mogh} "be frustrated", {puQ} "be fed up" and an antonym {jot} "be calm".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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