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

[Steven Boozer <sboozer@uchicago.edu>]

> Klingon Word of the Day for Wednesday, September 02, 2015
> 
> Klingon word: Hut
> Part of speech: num
> Definition: nine

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}. (The origins of the words {Hut} [nine] and the suffix {-maH}, used in the words for ten, twenty, thirty, and so on, are obscure.)

KCD:  The Chalice of Kahless is kept full of wine in front of "The Tracker" sculpture and refilled every ninth day, just in case Kahless returns.


RELATED WORDS:
HutDIch  		ninth (9th)
HutmaH  		ninety (90)
Hutvatlh  		nine hundred (900)

SEE ALSO:
Hutvagh  		too many people or things in a place all at once (n),
Hut'In  		nail (n)
Hut'In vIl  	screw (n)
Hut'Inmey tIq  	[weaving sticks, knitting needles, crochet hook] (n)


--
Voragh
Ca'Non Master of the Klingons



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