tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Thu Jan 13 07:13:52 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: nugh (noun)
>Klingon word: nugh
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: society; group of people with shared culture
>Source: TKD (97 KE, 153 EK, KGT 221 KE, KGT 257 EK)
>Swedish: samh=E4lle (grupp m=E4nniskor med gemensam kultur)
>
>Additional Notes:
>KGT adds "group of people with shared culture."
Okrand contrasts {nugh} with {yej'an} "society (e.g. scholarly society)":
Note that {nugh} "society" has a much broader meaning:
a group of people with a shared culture. Accordingly,
{tlhIngan nugh} would mean "Klingon society" as distin-
guished from, say, Romulan society, but {tlhIngan yej'an}
would probably be "The Klingon Society", a group dedicated
to the study of Klingons. [HolQeD 4.4]
Cf. also {tIgh} "custom", {tayqeq} "civilization" and the slang term=20
{tlham} "order, structure (i.e. an ordered or well-structured society)".
--=20
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons=20