tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Jan 17 07:50:40 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: muD
> Klingon Word of the Day for Friday, January 17, 2014
>
> Klingon word: muD
> Part of speech: noun
> Definition: weather (in general)
> Source: TKD
yoq yIn yuQ 'oH Qo'noS'e'. yInSIp voQSIp je ngaS muDDaj.
Qo'noS is a class-M planet with an oxygen/nitrogen atmosphere. S27
muDDaq 'eDSeHcha lulaQlu'bogh: jav
Atmospheric Take-Off/Landing Thrusters - 6 (KBoP)
muD ngeb SeHwI' pat
atmospheric control system (KBoP)
jevqu'taHvIS muD ral, bejlI' parmaq.
That looks on tempests and is never shaken. (Sonnet 116)
["While the violent atmosphere storms, love still watches."]
HQ 2.4: The Klingon word for weather, meaning the state of the atmosphere, is the same as the word for atmosphere itself, {muD}. When inquiring about specific weather conditions at a specific time and/or place, the expression {muD Dotlh (literally, "atmosphere status") is used.
st.k (11/1997): Speakers who do this seem to be aware that they are breaking the rules, so they are doing it for rhetorical effect. (It has the same sort of feeling, perhaps, as if someone were to say in English... "It's lightninging and thundering outside"...)
TKD 10: Unlike most speakers of English, who begin conversations with greetings, inquiries about the state of health of the conversants, and remarks about the weather, Klingons tend to begin conversations by simply stating the main points.
PUNS:
1) "mud"; 2) "mood" (mood lighting adds atmosphere)?
Related words:
muD Dotlh weather (at any given moment)
muD Duj airplane (n) (TNK
muD ngeb [artificial atmosphere] KBoP
chal sky (n)
SuS wind (n)
SIp gas (n)
SeS steam (n)
'eng cloud (n)
Cf. also the weather verbs {jev} storm, {SIS} rain, {peD} snow.
Does the {paq'batlh} talk about weather conditions at all?
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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