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RE: Klingon WOTD: 'atlhqam (n)

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: RE: Klingon WOTD: 'atlhqam (n)
• Date: Thu, 18 Jan 2001 11:03:47 -0600
• In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

>> Klingon word:      'atlhqam
>> Part of Speech:    noun
>> Definition:        type of fungus
>> Additional Notes:  KGT. (mushroom?)

De'vID:
> There's gotta be a pun behind this. It's something {qam} "foot".
> {natlh qam} "the foot is disgusting/consumes it"?

Holtej:
: Hmm, I'd lean towards "athlete's foot".

KGT (p.72) pretty much confirms this interpretation:

  "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."

Doesn't sound like a mushroom, though.



-- 
Voragh                       
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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