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RE: Klingon WOTD: wovmoHwI' (n)

>> jatlh Voragh:
>> >  However the good news is that because of {maSwov} "moonlight"
>> we suspect
>> >  that there MAY be a noun *{wov}, either historically or just
>> left out of
>> >  what is a relatively small vocabulary.  The bad news is that
>> since Okrand
>> >  didn't list it in TKD or KGT, or used it anywhere else, we don't use it
>> >  here on this mailing list.
>
>> -Eodrakken
>> I was afraid you might say that.  A word I was really wanting
>> recently was "starlight" (Hovwov?).  Have we ever seen that
>> in canon?
>
>Or sunlight.  What's the word for "sun", if there is one?
>Would it be /Hov'a'/ (i.e. "major star")?  Would /*Hov'a'wov/
>be sunlight then?
>
>It would be most interesting if Klingons referred to their
>sun (is there a name for the sun of Qo'noS?) as "major
>star", because it would imply that their astronomers realized
>that the sun is a kind of star early in their history.

Some ideas for the sun:

jaj Hov  -- "day star"
chal qul -- "skyfire"
chal QIm -- "eye of heaven"
QIm'a'   -- "Great Eye"

any other ideas?

quljIb

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