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Re: Klingon WOTD: tuqnIgh (noun)

Steven Boozer ([email protected])

• From: Steven Boozer <[email protected]>
• Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: tuqnIgh (noun)
• Date: Mon, 02 Jul 2007 10:34:22 -0500
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>This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, July 2, 2007.
>
>Category: People
>
>Klingon word:   tuqnIgh
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition:     member of a house
>
>Additional Notes:
>HolQeD 9:3 p. 8, {matlh jup mu'mey}.  {tuqnIgh} is used to refer to any 
>member of a house.  Thus, {qeng tuqnIgh} is "a member of the House of 
>Kang," and {tuqnIghwI'} is "a member of my house."

Never used in a sentence.

Possible pun:  Could {nIgh}, which is otherwise unattested, be "kin" 
backwards (substituting the "more Klingon-sounding" /gh/ for the /k/)?



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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons

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