tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Nov 14 09:38:21 2001
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Re: Klingon WOTD: nguvmoH (v)
: Klingon word: nguvmoH
: Part of Speech: verb
: Definition: dye, stain, tint
As used in canon:
ret'aq nguvmoH
He/she stains the knife handle. KGT
Related verbs include {ngoH} "smear, paint using fingers" and {DIj} "use/paint
with a pigment stick". Useful nouns are {rItlh} "pigment, paint, dye" and
{rItlh naQ} "pigment stick." Cf. also {nguv} "be dyed, be stained, be tinted":
chay' nguv
How is (it) tinted? [i.e. What color is it?] KGT
On painting in general:
"What the Federation would classify as a painting - that is, a
{nagh beQ} featuring an image not carved into it but painted
onto it - is made by applying {rItlh} ..." (KGT 8}
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons