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

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



> Klingon Word of the Day for Tuesday, August 19, 2014
> 
> Klingon word:   vagh
> Part of speech: num
> Definition:     five

TKD 3.3.2:  The plural suffixes ({-pu', -mey}) are not necessary when a number is used.

vagh pu'HIchmey 
five phasers CK

vagh nItlhDu' 
five fingers (HQ 10.2)

vagh yaDDu' 
five toes (HQ 10.2)

vaghvatlh qelI'qam 
[Five hundred kellicams.] ST3

vagh rep bImejnIS 
Check out time is five A.M. CK

He pagh-pagh-vagh-jav-pagh-jav yInab 
Plot course 0.0.5.6.0.6. (ST5 notes) 

cha'maH vagh vatlhvI' Hong, QIt yIghoS 
Slow to one quarter impulse power. ST5

HenrI' vagh 
Henry V (i.e. the play by Shakespeare) KGT

HovpoH Hut vagh cha' wa' vI' jav Dujvam 'aghlu'pu' 'ach Qaw'lu'pu' 
[This ship was demonstrated on Stardate 9521.6 but it was destroyed. (untr.)] S33

vagh 'ujmey vI'ab 
I have a length of five ujs, I'm five ujs tall. (st.k)

wejvatlh loSmaH loS vI' vagh wej 'uj 'aD Duj 
Length: 120 M. KBoP

wejvatlh SochmaH vagh SaD cheb'a'mey ngI' Duj 
Mass: 8.7 KT. KBoP

cha' vI' vagh choQmey lutoghlu' 
Number of Decks: 2.5. KBoP

qughDo motlh: pIvlob vagh 
Normal Cruising Speed - Warp 5. KBoP

'aqroS qughDo: pIvlob Hut vI' vagh 
Maximum Cruising Speed - Warp 9.5. KBoP

HIvtaHvIS toQDuj cha'vatlh wejmaH Soch vI' vagh chorgh 'uj 'ab 'oH 
Attack Formation Height: 82.75 M. KBoP

vagh SanID ben buDbe' wamwI'pu'. ngugh Ho'Du'chaj lo' chaH, 'ach DaH tajmey lo'. 
5,000 years ago, hunters were not lazy. Then (at that time) they used their teeth, but now they use knives. (st.k 11/99)


{QIn vagh} "spearhead with multiple points": 
KGT 64:  A [spear] tip with multiple points is a {QIn vagh} ("spearhead number five"), though this is a bit odd because there may be any number of points and no other spearheads are named with numbers. A spearhead that is barbed is a {SeDveq}, a word with unknown etymological origins and otherwise unused.

{vagh} "fifth tone of nonatonic musical scale":
KGT 73:  The independent words for the numbers three through nine were not originally a part of the Klingon counting system, but they had to come from somewhere. The musical scale is the likely source. The word for the fourth musical tone, {loS}, began to be used for the number four, and so on through the eighth tone, {chorgh}.



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



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