tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 28 07:28:46 2014
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: roghmoH
> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, May 28, 2014
>
> Klingon word: roghmoH
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: cause to ferment
KGT 91f. Almost as common as food that has been soaked in a marinade is food that has been set aside to {rogh} (ferment). It is important to distinguish {rogh} from {ragh} (decay)... To ferment food is to {roghmoH} (literally, "cause to ferment"). Fermented meat is also known as {qeyvaq Ha'DIbaH} (Kayvak's food), named, for now forgotten reasons, after a famous ancient warrior. As with hunter's and emperor's food, the specific meat is used rather than the word {Ha'DIbaH} (meat), as in {qeyvaq lIngta'} (Kayvak's *lingta*).
KGT 92: One way to bring fermentation about is to mix the food with a fungus (known as {'atlhqam}) usually scraped off the bottom of certain animals' feet, though it also grows on trees. The fermentation process is monitored so that the food is served at just the right time, even though the process is actually still going on (the verb meaning serve fermented food at its peak is {wech}) ... Finally, the way to prepare a common dish called {qompogh} is to mash ({tap}) a mixture of various types of {naH} (fruit, vegetable), with or without some animal matter, into a rather lumpy paste and then to let it {rogh} (ferment).
KGT 93f.: It is also not unusual to {HaH} (marinate) or {roghmoH} (ferment) various sorts of {naH} (fruit, vegetable).
KGT 97: A square or rectangular tub used to hold food while it is fermenting is called a {'Ib}
KGT 84: This food is often described as {Soj tlhol} ("raw, unprocessed food"), as opposed to {Soj vutlu'pu'bogh} ("food that someone has prepared"). What makes the food {tlhol} is not that it has not been heated but rather that no one has done anything to it...
Similar words:
vut cook, prepare food (v)
Qev stew (v)
mIQ deep-fry (v)
tlhol be raw, be unprocessed (v)
baQ be fresh/just picked [fruit, vegetable] (v)
non be rotten (v)
ngIm be putrid (v)
tlhorgh be pungent (v)
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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