tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Mon Jul 02 13:28:37 2007
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Re: Klingon WOTD: tuqnIgh (noun)
Nigh already means "near" in [archaic] English, so if you're looking
for that meaning, you've already got it.
At 10:34 AM 7/2/2007, you wrote:
> >This is the Klingon Word Of The Day for Monday, July 2, 2007.
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> >Category: People
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> >Klingon word: tuqnIgh
> >Part of Speech: noun
> >Definition: member of a house
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> >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."
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>Never used in a sentence.
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>Possible pun: Could {nIgh}, which is otherwise unattested, be "kin"
>backwards (substituting the "more Klingon-sounding" /gh/ for the /k/)?
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