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Re: Klingon WOTD: pegh (verb)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



>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






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