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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: ghung

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, April 15, 2014
> 
> Klingon word: ghung
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be hungry
> Source: TKD

jIghung 
I'm hungry. CK
I am hungry. PK

wa'Hu' jIghung 
Yesterday I was hungry. CK

jIghungqu' 
I am very hungry. PK

jIghung je 
I am also hungry. PK

SoSoy jIghung 
Mommy, I'm hungry. KGT

ghung; qagh rur 
hungry as gagh. KGT

qagh largh SuvwI' ghung.  Sum qagh 'e' Sov.
The hungry warrior smells the gagh. He/she knows the gagh is nearby. (HQ 12/1998)

SuvwI' ghung law' qagh ghung rap 
the warrior is as hungry as gagh (HQ 13.1:10)

Usage notes:

"I asked [Marc Okrand] if there were a word for 'satisfied, I'm full', i.e. you had  eaten enough. MO said no, but accepted {ghungHa'} for 'not hungry any more'. You cannot use it though to say that you are not hungry, that should be {ghungbe'} 'not hungry'. But if you are hungry first, then you eat enough, then you can say {DaH jIghungHa'} "Now I am un-hungry" (= "not hungry any more").  It also works with {'oj} the same way."   [Lieven, qepHom'a', 11/15/2011]


Similar verbs:

Sop 		eat
noS 		eat in small mouthfuls, nibble
je' 		feed (someone else)

'oj 		be thirsty
tlhutlh	drink


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons




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