tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed May 30 04:57:02 2007
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Re: Klingon WOTD: chal (noun)
- From: QeS 'utlh <[email protected]>
- Subject: Re: Klingon WOTD: chal (noun)
- Date: Wed, 30 May 2007 21:53:58 +1000
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ghItlhpu' Holtej, ja':
>Klingon word: chal
>Part of Speech: noun
>Definition: sky
jang Voragh, ja':
>Never used in canon:
>Trek notes:
>In the TV episodes the Klingon sky as seen from orbit is usually a
>swamp-green color.
>In William Shatner's novel "The Ashes of Eden" {Chalchaj 'qmey} means
>"the Children of Heaven" (supposedly "an archaic form of 'the sky's
>offspring'").
Although the translation is uncertain, also in Ann Crispin's novel "Sarek", in which the character Karg refers to " flowers" (p. 58). One presumes the word {chal} "sky" here could be a descriptor, perhaps of colour as may be seen in the English "buttercup".
QeS 'utlh
tlhIngan Hol yejHaD pabpo' / Grammarian of the Klingon Language Institute
not nItoj Hemey ngo' juppu' ngo' je
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