Re: [Tlhingan-hol] Klingon Word of the Day: chorgh

[Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>]

> Klingon word: chorgh
> Part of speech: num
> Definition: eight

chorgh QuchDu' 'IH 
eight beautiful foreheads CK

noH HIvchuq chorghSaD qelI'qam 
Estimating attack range in 8,000 kellicams. ST5

tera' poH jaj wa', jar wa', jaj loSDIch, DIS wa'-Hut-Hut-chorgh:
  HovpoHvetlh latlh nab yIHutlh 
Save this Stardate: Sunday, January 4, 1998. STX

HIvtaHvIS toQDuj cha'vatlh wejmaH Soch vI' vagh chorgh 'uj 'ab 'oH 
Attack Formation Height: 82.75 M. KBoP

SaqtaHvIS toQDuj wa'vatlh loS vI' jav chorgh 'uj 'ab 'oH 
Landing Formation Height: 36.46 M. KBoP

jabbI'ID pup: Qapchu'meH 'aqroS chuq: cha' vI' chorgh loghqammey 
High Resolution - Maximum Effective Range - 3.5 Light Years. KBoP

nen rav: chorgh ben 
Ages 8 to Adult MKE

cha'maH chorgh yer ghajwI' chaw' 'echletHommey 
28 Title Deed cards. MKE

N.B. {chorgh} is also name of the eighth tone of the Klingon nonatonic musical scale:

KGT 73:  The independent words for the numbers three through nine were not originally a part of the Klingon counting system, but they had to come from somewhere. The musical scale is the likely source. The word for the fourth musical tone, {loS}, began to be used for the number four, and so on through the eighth tone, {chorgh}.


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



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