tlhIngan-Hol Archive: Wed Jul 17 12:33:34 2013
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Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Freckles
quljIb:
> How does one say spots or freckles in {tlhIngan Hol}? The concept cannot
> be completely unknown, after all Curzon Dax was an (unofficial?) ambassador
> to the Empire. And as Jadzia pointed out, "They go all the way down."
The only thing I can think of is {Degh[Hom]} "[little] symbol, marking, mark" but this has always struck me as something artificial - i.e. added decoration - not natural. Otherwise use a simile: e.g. {nguv CURZON DAX DIr; XXX rur} "Curzon Dax's skin is tinted; it resembles a X" where X is some kind of thing with spots, freckles or smudges. (WRT to Dax's markings, they sorta-kinda look like {pIqaD} letters if anything)
For review:
KGT 81-2: Compared to Federation Standard, Klingon terminology associated with colors is rather limited. First of all, there is no noun meaning color. There is, however, a verb, {nguv}, which means something like "be dyed, stained, tinted", though it is seldom used except in the phrase {chay' nguv" ("How is [it] tinted?") or when suffixed with {-moH} ("cause") in the form {nguvmoH} ("dye, tint, stain"; that is, "cause to be dyed," etc.)--for example, {ret'aq nguvmoH} ("He/she stains the knife handle").
st.k (Feb. 1998): What we call brown would be described in Klingon by using the verb {Doq} "be red, orange". If the context is clear (such as contrasting a brown thing with a thing that cannot be described as {Doq}, such as something that's {SuD} "blue, green, yellow"), {Doq} alone is good enough. ... To get even more specific (to be able to refer to different kinds of browns) would involve comparisons. For example: {Doq 'ej Qaj wuS rur} "be orange/red and resemble *kradge* lips". The lips of the *kradge* are presumably a particular shade of brown.
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Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons
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