tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Sep 01 07:25:38 2006
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Re: Klingon WOTD: burgh (noun)
>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, September 1, 2006.
>
>Category: Body Parts
>
>Klingon word: burgh
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: stomach
Never used in canon.
Anatomical notes:
"Now, after a big meal, and your belly is big, you can't eat another bite.
You can't say *{jIbuy'}. Your stomach can be full, but YOU can't; not in
this context anyways." (DloraH, personal conversation with Marc Okrand, May
1998)
"When air (or gas) from the stomach works its way up and comes out of the
mouth (often noisily), one is said to {ruq} "belch" ... When, rather than
gas, undigested or partially digested food comes up, one is said to {'em},
"vomit" ..." (HolQeD 12.4:8)
Klingons have redundant stomachs. (VOY "Macrocosm")
Related nouns:
{chor} belly; {luH} intestine; cf. also {poq} indigestion
Related verbs:
{bor} gurgle
>Additional Notes:
>KGT p. 88, as food.
"A distinctive Klingon culinary technique similar to fermentation involves
using a living animal as a food processor. Once again, timing is critical.
A number of different kinds of foods are mixed together, along with various
flavorful herbs, and the concoction (called {Su'lop}) is fed to an animal.
After just the right amount of time (a good cook knows from experience when
this is), the animal is killed and its parts are used for various dishes,
as would be expected. The stomach, however, still contains the now
partially digested {Su'lop}, which is removed, used as a sauce (called
{quD}), and served with great flourish. To prepare a sauce in this manner
is described as Su'lop Suqqa' (literally, reacquire Su'lop), often
shortened to just {Suqqa'}. There is an alternate way of preparing {quD}
that involves using chemicals to do the job of the animal's stomach
enzymes. Klingon gourmets distinguish between the two by referring to {quD}
made in the natural way as {burgh quD} ('stomach {quD}'), as opposed to the
artificially produced {'un quD} ('pot {quD}'). Though nutritionally
identical, {burgh quD}, when available, is always preferable to {'un quD}."
(KGT 92f)
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons