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Klingon WOTD: letlh (noun)
This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Saturday, February 5, 2005.
Category: General
Klingon word: letlh
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: stairs, stairway
Source: KGT (218 KE, 258 EK)
Swedish: trappa, trappuppgång
Additional Notes:
KGT p. 29: For example, the word for "stairs" or "stairway" in most of the Empire is {letlh}. One type of {letlh} is a {choghvat}, the stairway leading to and from the doorway of a ship. In a couple of dialects in the Mekro'vak ({meqro'vaq}) region, however, {letlh} refers only to the stairway connected to a ship, while {ngep'oS} is any other kind of stairway but not one used to enter or exit a ship.
Synonyms: ngep'oS
Homonyms:
letlh (noun) - stairway leading to door of a ship (regional)
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