tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Sat Apr 23 04:00:40 2005
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Klingon WOTD: nguv (verb)
This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, April 23, 2005.
Category: Stative Verbs
Klingon word: nguv
Part of Speech: verb
Definition: be dyed, stained, tinted
Source: KGT (222 KE, 240 EK, 258 EK, 261 EK)
Swedish: vara färgad, vara fläckad, vara tonad
Additional Notes:
KGT p. 81. Compared to Federation Standard, Klingon terminology associated with colors is rather limited. First of all, there is no noun meaning "color." There is, however, a verb, {nguv}, which means something like "be dyed, stained, tinted," though it is seldom used except in the phrase {chay' nguv} ("How is [it] tinted?") or when suffixed with {-moH} ("cause") in the form {nguvmoH} ("dye, tint, stain"; that is, "cause to be dyed," etc.)--for example, {ret'aq nguvmoH} ("He/she stains the knife handle").
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