tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Fri Feb 02 07:12:41 2007

Back to archive top level

To this year's listing

• Index by Date
• Index by Thread
• Index by Author

Re: Klingon WOTD: Som (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: Som (noun)
• Date: Fri, 02 Feb 2007 09:11:18 -0600
• In-reply-to: <[email protected]>
• References: <[email protected]>

>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Friday, February 2, 2007.
>
>Klingon word:   Som
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     hull

Used in canon:

   tlhIngan Dujmey law'qu' SommeyDaq batlh cha'lu'
   [It] has been emblazoned upon the hulls of countless Klingon starships. SP1

Vocabulary notes:

   [...] when used in reference to an inanimate object, say, a mechanical
   device or the hull of a ship, rach ["fortify, strengthen"] also implies
   improvement or betterment." (st.k 10/98)

Related nouns:

{tlhoy'} "wall, interior wall, interior face of exterior wall"; {reD} 
"exterior wall"; {pa' reD} "interior face of exterior wall".

In 2151 while aboard the IKV Somraw , Hoshi says that *ka'tahl* can mean 
wall, barrier or hull. (ENT "Sleeping Targs")



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

• References:
  • Klingon WOTD: Som (noun)
    • From: [email protected]

• Prev by Date: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for January 30, 2007
• Next by Date: Re: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for January 30, 2007
• Previous by thread: Klingon WOTD: Som (noun)
• Next by thread: Dilbert Comic in Klingon for January 30, 2007
• Index(es):
  • Date
  • Thread
  • Author

Back to archive top level