tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Oct 24 09:41:55 2005
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Re: Klingon WOTD: pegh (verb)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, October 23, 2005.
>
>Klingon word: pegh
>Part of Speech: verb
>Definition: keep something secret
Used in canon:
ghoSmeH yIpegh
Stealth approach. ST5
pegh vIttlhegh
A proverb keeps things secret. ["that is, it withholds information rather
than being a ready source of answers. To some Klingons, this is a most
insightful coincidence." (HQ 5.1)
Cf. also {peghHa'moH} "cause to not keep a secret" (i.e. to reveal a
secret0. Interrogators are skilled in this (cf. KGT p.153).
>Homonyms:
> pegh (verb) - secret, be secret
pegh De'vetlh
That is classified information. CK
De' pegh vIghaj
I have secret information. PK
> pegh (noun) - secret
nuH pegh
secret of this weapon, the weapon's secret
nuHvam pegh
secret of this weapon TKD
Hov ghajbe'bogh ram rur pegh ghajbe'bogh jaj
A day without secrets is like a night without stars.
not mev peghmey
Secrets never cease. PK
peghmey vIttlhegh
secrecy proverb (HQ 5.1)
"When asked to speak Klingon, [Okrand] often says, {QI' peghmey vI'angQo'}
which means 'I refuse to reveal military secrets'." (Qov, HQ 13.3:14)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons