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Re: Klingon WOTD: 'och (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])



>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Sunday, January 28, 2007.
>
>Klingon word:   'och
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     tunnel

Used in canon:

   HoS QaymeH 'och
   power transfer conduit (BoP)

   nuH HoS 'och
   weapon(s) power conduit (BoP)

Miscellaneous notes:

"For the end of a longish enclosed space that one is typically inside of or 
experiences from the inside, such as a corridor, tunnel, or conduit (say, a 
Jeffries tube or a branch of the sewers of Paris),a different word is used: 
{qa'rI'}. This is the only word; it's used for both (or all) ends. The open 
entryway leading into such a space is called a {DIn}. If there's a door 
there, it's referred to by the usual word for door, {lojmIt}." (HQ 12.2:7)

"... the highly complex {meSchuS}. This is a very large [musical] 
instrument, not at all easily moved from place to place, which consists of 
a network of interlocking tubes. One tube terminates in the mouthpiece 
({ngujlep}) into which the player blows ({SuS})." (KGT 75)

"One kind of {Sor Hap 'In} ["percussion instrument] is a tube, open on both 
ends, with a longitudinal slit extending not quite to either end. It is hit 
with a {mupwI'Hom}." (KGT 75)

Related nouns:

{DIS} "cave"; {Qargh} "fissure"; {ngech} "valley"; {tlhIlHal} "mine"

I've seen *{naw'meH 'och} used for "access tunnel/tube, Jeffries tube" and 
*{'och'a'} for "wormhole (i.e. in space)".



--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons






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