tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Feb 10 15:13:10 2003
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Re: Klingon WOTD: Duq (n)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, February 10, 2003.
>
>Klingon word: Duq
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: small bowl
>
>Additional Notes: KGT
Klingon has at least two words, {maHpIn} and {Duq}, corresponding to
Federation
Standard "bowl", but no single word to refer to both; Federation
Standard lacks
distinctive vocabulary for the two vessels, so it must add on adjectives or
descriptive phrases: large bowl for serving, small bowl for eating from.
(KGT, 205)
If the particular dish is somewhat soupy (a dish of this kind is termed
a {chatlh},
roughly translated as "soup", though the amount of liquid is far less
than what
the Federation Standard term "soup" would suggest), it will arrive at
the table in
a large bowl ({maHpIn}) and a diner will pour [{qang}] its contents into
a smaller
bowl ({Duq}), from which he or she will consume it. Since this sort of
dish is
still primarily solid food as opposed to liquid, using the verb
{tlhutlh} ("drink")
to describe ingesting it is not quite right. There is another verb,
{'ep}, which
refers to eating food of this kind. (KGT, 99f)
--
Voragh "Damage control is easy. Reading Klingon
- that's
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons hard!" (Montgomery
Scott, STIV)