tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Apr 03 07:21:09 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: tun
> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, April 03, 2013
>
> Klingon word: tun
> Part of speech: verb
> Definition: be soft
Used in canon:
tun; reghuluS 'Iwghargh rur
soft as a Regulan bloodworm (KGT)
Cultural notes:
"Maltz first said ... that Klingons don't have pillows and he wondered why anyone would want one. But he's seen them (somewhere) and knows what they are. So when pushed - "If you have to call it something, what would you call it?" - he said {ngogh tun}." [Lieven L. Litaer < Okrand, 12/07/2010]
When Captain K'Vada showed Picard to his quarters aboard his Bird-of-Prey, he slapped the hard bed - actually, more like a sleeping shelf - and sneered, "You will sleep Klingon-style. We do not cushion our bodies by putting down a pad." Nonplussed, Picard slapped the "bed" himself and replied, "Good. I like it that way." (TNG "Unification I")]
"Since Klingons are accommodating of foreigners, guest rooms in hotels do come equipped with a bed but that it's most often made of the same material as the floor." (CK)
Related words:
ghab tun meat from midsection of animal, no bones (regional) (n)
ngogh tun pillow (n.)
let be hard (v.)
- letqu' QongDaq
The bed is very hard. CK
- let mInDu'Daj; Separmey rur
Her eyes are hard; they resemble separ
[i.e. Her eyes are as hard as separ-stones.] KGT
--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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