tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 24 06:56:23 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] qoH SuS je bopbogh lut'e'
ghItlhpu' nIqolay, jatlh:
>> The only changes I made were [...] and also to use
>> "stone and brick" instead of "stone and mortar", simply because
>> we have a word for "brick" and not one for "mortar".
QeS:
> Well... no, not strictly. {ngogh} is really more "block" or "chunk"
> than "brick" specifically; we've seen it used to describe, among
> other things, pillows and loaves of bread.
I'm not sure that nIqolay is wrong here, though I think he should specify what kind of brick/block.
{ngogh} seems to be a (rectangular?) block/brick of something -- IOW a 3-dimensional shape. I.e.
{ngogh} block/brick : {letbaQ} rectangle
{buq'Ir} cube : {meyrI'} square
With the recent words for shapes, we have some more 3D vs. 2D equivalents:
{moQ} sphere : {gho} circle
{'Impey'} pyramid : {ra'Duch} triangle
The word {ngogh} comes from the 9th qepHom'a' in Saarbrücken when someone asked Okrand about pillows of all things:
Maltz first said that Klingons don't have pillows and he wondered
why anyone would want one. But he's seen them (somewhere) and knows
what they are. So when pushed - "If you have to call it something,
what would you call it?" - he said {ngogh tun}. A {ngogh} is a block
or lump or brick. [Maltz] said he's seen humans eating {yuch ngoghmey}
and found that strange.
(Lieven L. Litaer, 12/07/2010)
Examples: {ngogh tun} "pillow", {nIm wIb ngogh} "[a block of?] cheese" TNK, {tIr ngogh} "bread" (i.e. a loaf?) TNK, {Ha'DIbaH ghIH tIr ngogh je} "burger" TNK. And although Okrand didn't use the Klingon word specifically:
KGT 93: A particularly popular dish, {tlhombuS}, requires that the cook coat a block of {tlhagh} [animal fat] with a mixture of {ngat} (herbed granulated cartilage) and {tIr} (grain) and then briefly immerse the block into the already boiling fat, just until the coating hardens.
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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