fish, be fishing – Klingon Language Institute

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Verb to describe process of catching fish (if such a concept in Klingon is distinguished from wam). "The villagers fish to sustain themselves." "The warrior likes to fish."

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Rhona March 14, 2019
Tangentially, if Maltz knows more about different types of fish, that'd be interesting too. We have a rich vocabulary for land-dwelling and avian animals, but as aquatic animals go, we have only norgh as a specific type along with the general terms bIQDep and ghotI'.
Timothy March 16, 2019
crab would be nice. Or baracudda.
1. Andrew March 20, 2019
  nechbogh bIQ'a' pach ghew laterally-moving ocean claw-bug, haha
  1. Timothy March 22, 2019
    Ha! Just thought of something else. If I'm not mistaken, the episode in which some of the crew de-evolved into earlier ancestral forms established that the earliest taxon of the Klingons' ancestors to leave the oceans were more similar to crustaceans than to fish, with the forehead ridges presumably being vestiges of the crustaceans' carapace. No wonder Klingons are often so crabby!
Andrew March 24, 2019
jon seems sufficient if the fish poses no real threat of bodily harm. One might wam large or dangerous aquatic life however.

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