tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jun 27 09:31:11 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: tuj (verb)
> >>Homonyms:
> >> tuj (noun) - heat
Other uses of the noun are {tuj muvwI'} "thermo-suture" (medical device)
and {tuj ghImwI'} "heat exhaust" (device).
lay'tel SIvten:
>And {tuj} also occurs in the word {Daghtuj} 'mixture of animal parts', the
>meaning of which seems to be unrelated to the meanings of {tuj} alone.
A mixture of animal parts is {Daghtuj}, regardless of whether
the parts are from the same type of animal. (KGT 87f)
That's one of Okrand's puns of course: {Daghtuj} = hot {Dagh} = hot dog (a
common type of meat sausage, the ingredients of which are sometimes best
left unknown)!
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons