tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Dec 14 09:03:24 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: tlhegh (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Wednesday, December 14, 2005.
>
>Klingon word: tlhegh
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: line, rope
Never used in a sentence.
Some phrases and compounds:
The usual term for "proverb" is {vIttlhegh}, literally "truth
rope" and formed, no doubt, by analogy with {mu'tlhegh} "sentence"
or, literally, "word rope". (HQ 5.1)
And we have {nugh tlhegh} "society rope"?? (i.e. community mores or
commonly accepted behavior? in KCD. (Cp. the "party line" in
politics.) In "Star Trek: Klingon!" (the KCD novelization) we read:
Pok has yet to complete the Second Rite of Ascension.
In the eyes of the {nugh tlhegh} he is still a boy.
Could the {tlhegh} in question refer to the line of six painstik-wielding
warriors who form the gauntlet (or "River of Pain") through which a young
Klingon must pass during his nentay? I would imagine that important
members of society or the community are often asked to participate, at
least in upper class Houses.
Krankor uses {tlhegh} for the three parts of the Klingonist anthem {taHjaj
wo'}, all sung at the same time in counterpoint. {tlhegh wa'DIch} is the
"main verse," {tlhegh cha'DIch} is the "answer back," and {tlhegh wejDIch}
kind of runs all through. The lyrics are published in HolQeD 2.3.
{tlhegh} has often been used for an e-mail "thread" on the Mailing List.
Related nouns include {SIrgh} "string, thread, filament" and {mIr} "chain".
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons